Astrolabium
Vranicum
Generale
.
Heere
followeth
the
booke
of
the
vse
of
the
Vranicall
Astrolabe
,
Newly
deuised
by
Iohn
Blagraue
of
Reading
,
Gentleman
.
Cap.
1.
¶
Of
the
partes
of
this
new
Astrolabe
.
THis
Astrolabe
hath
three
generall
partes
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
Celestiall
,
the
Zenitfer
with
his
Cursor
,
and
the
Almicantifer
with
his
Pointer
.
I
call
that
part
the
Celestiall
heere
,
which
in
other
Astrolabes
is
called
the
Mate●
,
of
which
I
will
largely
speake
in
the
next
Chap.
The
Zenitfer
beeing
but
as
a
playne
rule
of
one
ynch
bredth
,
mooueth
vpon
the
Celestiall
in
stead
of
a
Reete
vsed
in
other
Astrolabes
:
and
hath
a
circular
Lymbe
thereto
annexed
neere
vnto
the
Centre
,
which
I
call
the
Circulus
horarius
,
or
houre
circle
,
with
the
24.
houres
,
and
their
partes
thereon
,
as
you
see
.
Neither
is
it
materiall
of
what
quantity
that
houre
circle
or
lymbe
be
of
,
so
it
be
concentricke
to
the
Astrolabe
,
and
placed
so
,
that
it
hide
fewest
Starres
in
his
moouing
.
And
for
seruice
of
this
circle
,
there
is
written
at
the
vpper
end
of
this
Zenitfer
Meridies
,
and
at
the
lower
end
Media
nox
,
and
therefore
the
fiduciall
line
thereof
from
the
Centre
vpwards
to
Meridies
,
is
generally
called
the
Noone
line
,
the
other
part
from
the
Centre
downewardes
vnto
Media
nox
the
North
line
.
Then
hath
it
90
Zenith
lines
standing
in
ascents
one
aboue
another
like
Organ
pipes
,
in
stead
of
the
90
generall
Horizons
before
time
vsed
,
issuing
or
growing
out
of
the
90
Zenith
points
:
for
the
lowest
points
of
these
90
lines
neerest
vnto
the
centre
vnto
which
their
numbers
are
set
from
0
to
90
,
do
represent
the
true
Zenithes
of
all
places
.
These
90.
Zenith
lines
,
are
by
certaine
thwart
curued
lines
parted
euery
one
into
90
vneuen
parts
,
of
which
some
run
out
infinitely
,
and
those
partes
I
call
the
Altitude
rootes
,
or
the
Almicantare
rootes
,
and
for
breuities
sake
sometimes
Rootes
without
any
addition
.
These
Rootes
do
helpe
vs
to
generall
Almicantares
,
or
circles
of
Altitude
for
any
Latitude
by
a
rare
deuise
by
me
first
found
out
.
They
are
numbered
on
the
outer
side
of
the
Zenitfer
from
their
extreame
points
inwards
towards
their
sayd
Zenith
points
,
ending
at
them
with
90.
Also
to
the
Fiduciall
line
of
this
Zenitfer
is
anexed
a
scale
,
in
which
are
planted
the
Radiall
degrees
of
the
proiectement
on
both
sides
of
the
Scale
,
because
they
require
double
numbering
for
sundry
purposes
.
And
of
those
which
bound
on
the
Fiduciall
line
,
those
at
the
noone
line
are
numbered
from
the
Equinoctiall
intersection
both
waies
,
vz.
towards
Meridies
,
as
farre
as
the
Zenithfer
will
giue
leaue
,
which
are
about
36
,
and
towards
the
Centre
,
ending
there
at
90.
which
90
radiall
degrees
of
the
noone
line
towards
the
Centre
do
serue
(
with
the
other
36
)
to
descry
the
declinations
of
the
fixed
Starres
and
Planets
,
but
chiefely
they
serue
for
the
90
Zenithes
which
appertaine
to
the
90
generall
Horizons
,
and
for
distinction
sake
I
call
them
the
90
Verticall
points
,
and
they
exactly
answere
vnto
the
90.
lower
ends
of
the
90
Zenith
lines
,
which
before
I
called
the
90
Zenith
points
,
in
so
much
that
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Cursor
in
his
moouing
,
cutteth
the
Zenith
point
,
and
the
Verticall
point
of
any
latitude
both
at
once
.
The
other
Radiall
degrees
in
the
North
line
,
are
numbred
from
the
centre
towards
Media
nox
,
ending
at
the
Equinoctials
intersexion
therewith
at
90
,
and
do
serue
for
the
90
intersections
of
the
90
generall
Horizons
therewith
,
and
therefore
I
call
them
the
90
Horizontall
points
.
And
of
those
radyall
degrees
which
bound
on
the
other
side
of
the
Scale
,
which
indeede
serue
to
the
getting
of
the
12
houses
generally
,
as
is
shewed
in
the
27
Cap.
The
Norther
90
towards
Media
nox
are
numbred
inwards
towards
the
Centre
,
ending
there
at
90
contrary
to
the
former
.
And
the
Souther
of
those
radiall
degrees
are
numbred
from
the
Centre
outwards
towards
Meridies
two
to
one
,
as
farre
as
they
will
go
,
(
that
is
to
say
)
euery
10
make
but
5
,
and
these
do
serue
but
in
stead
of
rootes
to
the
other
,
and
therefore
I
call
them
the
Domifieng
rootes
.
Also
there
adioyneth
vnto
the
Radiall
scale
of
the
North
line
betweene
the
centre
and
the
Zenith
lines
a
certaine
scale
of
slope
lines
numbered
in
the
middest
,
beginning
but
from
60
and
ending
at
the
centre
with
90
,
which
I
call
the
Domifieng
Scale
,
for
that
the
two
extreames
of
euery
of
those
slope
lines
,
do
help
to
get
8
of
the
12
houses
in
that
latitude
,
whose
number
it
sheweth
,
as
in
the
27
Cap.
is
manifested
:
and
vnto
the
outer
edge
of
this
Domifieng
scale
,
are
also
anexed
part
of
the
former
radiall
degrees
,
all
hauing
relacion
to
them
on
the
North
line
.
Then
hath
this
Zenitfer
a
certaine
runner
or
Cursor
,
whose
fiduciall
line
alwayes
runneth
exactly
square
to
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Zenitfer
.
And
at
the
common
meeting
of
both
those
fiduciall
lines
,
this
Cursor
hath
iointed
vnto
him
a
kinde
of
Labell
or
loose
scale
,
which
I
call
the
Almicantifer
,
who
to
supply
the
generall
vse
of
the
Almicantares
,
hath
no
manner
of
matter
on
him
but
another
Cursor
,
which
I
call
a
Pointer
.
But
now
for
any
man
that
desireth
to
haue
this
Astrolabe
more
particularly
commodious
for
one
latitude
,
vz.
for
the
countrey
or
place
of
his
abode
,
then
shall
he
haue
a
kinde
of
Reete
or
moouer
made
,
carying
a
circle
or
limbe
of
houres
of
equall
diametre
to
the
Celestiall
,
and
within
it
the
Horizon
circle
of
that
place
particularly
described
after
Stophlerus
,
and
graduated
into
his
360
prospectiue
degrees
,
as
in
the
fourth
booke
4.
Cap.
of
my
Iewell
is
taught
,
together
with
the
arches
distinguishing
the
12
houses
,
as
in
Stoph
.
lib.
1.
propo
.
6.
is
taught
,
writing
to
each
house
his
number
and
significations
.
And
vnto
the
noone-line
furnished
with
the
former
radiall
degrees
,
numbred
from
the
Horizon
circle
,
into
twise
90.
both
ending
at
the
Verticall
point
,
you
shall
neede
to
annexe
but
only
one
of
the
90
Zenith
lines
,
vz.
that
which
serueth
to
your
latitude
and
his
rootes
,
with
the
Cursor
:
Neither
neede
your
Almicantifer
haue
his
sliding
pointer
,
but
in
stead
thereof
,
the
particuler
degrees
of
altitude
seruing
to
that
latitude
,
which
are
compounded
of
his
90
Zenith
rootes
,
and
the
90
radiall
degrees
in
the
North
line
,
as
in
the
19
Cap.
is
taught
,
all
which
shall
better
appeare
by
such
Astrolabes
as
I
meane
to
set
abroade
ready
furnished
.
Cap.
2.
¶
Of
the
Celestiall
proiectment
in
this
new
Astrolabe
,
and
how
the
longitudes
and
latitudes
of
the
Starres
are
thereby
had
.
NEedlesse
it
is
to
stand
vpon
the
Fabrication
,
or
long
particularizing
of
this
Instrument
or
his
partes
,
since
they
are
but
the
Copernician
representation
of
the
constellations
fixed
,
and
the
90
generall
Horizons
moouing
.
The
Fixed
part
which
in
other
Astrolabes
is
called
the
Mater
,
I
call
for
breuities
sake
the
Celestiall
,
For
that
in
it
I
haue
prospectiuely
proiected
the
Globe
Celestiall
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
Globe
of
the
fixed
Starres
,
with
the
Zodiack
,
and
his
North
Pole
(
marked
with
D
)
the
Images
of
each
constellation
,
and
the
Starres
appertaining
,
in
such
sort
as
in
the
Globe
they
are
vsuall
,
with
each
fift
circle
of
Longitude
and
Latitude
of
the
Zodiacke
,
Euery
sixe
of
those
fiues
of
the
Longitude
including
a
signe
in
the
heauens
,
being
12
in
the
whole
,
which
12
are
distinguished
with
twisted
lines
somewhat
bigger
from
the
rest
,
and
vnto
them
neere
vnto
the
Limbe
are
written
the
names
of
the
12
Signes
as
they
passe
in
order
,
Aries
,
Taurus
,
&c.
together
with
their
natures
and
quallities
.
Also
,
those
three
Signes
of
the
watry
triplicitie
are
filled
vp
with
waues
,
and
the
three
fiery
with
flames
,
and
the
three
earthy
with
bigge
prickes
,
and
the
three
ayry
left
white
.
Then
are
there
seuen
seuerall
magnitudes
of
Starres
,
each
bigger
and
brighter
then
other
,
whose
fashions
are
set
downe
with
their
numbers
in
the
Signe
♊
before
the
brest
of
Orion
,
by
which
they
are
easily
heerein
descryed
.
The
excentricke
circle
Orbs
or
Lymbe
,
lying
wholy
within
it
,
is
the
Zodiacke
deuided
into
his
12
Signes
by
the
foresayd
12
mayster
circles
of
longitude
,
and
euery
Signe
into
his
30
prospectiue
degrees
.
Also
the
degrees
are
made
with
,
diuers
distinguishments
,
for
the
Gradus
masculini
,
feminini
,
lucidi
,
tenebrosi
,
vacui
,
fumosi
,
puteales
,
fortunam
augentes
,
&
debilitantes
,
all
which
are
sufficiently
to
be
descryed
by
the
two
Directoria
Zodiaci
there
placed
.
Then
is
there
a
little
within
the
Zodiacke
a
rowe
of
Carecters
of
the
Planets
placed
at
euery
10
circle
of
longitude
,
signifying
the
faces
of
the
Planets
,
and
likewise
another
rowe
without
the
Zodiacke
at
the
beginning
of
the
termes
of
the
Planets
,
euery
face
and
terme
continuing
vnto
the
carect
next
him
in
sequens
of
the
Zodiacke
,
all
which
will
better
appeare
,
if
you
ioyne
vnto
this
booke
Claudius
Dariot
his
introduction
to
the
iudgement
of
the
Starres
,
which
by
good
hap
is
now
newly
imprinted
in
english
together
with
this
,
and
a
second
part
therewith
,
which
at
the
first
impression
was
omitted
.
And
specially
you
must
note
and
remember
well
,
that
the
very
outermost
circle
of
this
Zodiacke
,
is
the
clipticke
circle
,
within
which
is
contayned
the
North-halfe
or
Hemispheere
of
all
the
Starres
and
Constellacions
in
the
heauens
,
and
without
it
so
many
of
the
South
Starres
and
Constellacions
,
as
the
proiectment
would
admit
.
Then
is
there
also
lying
within
this
Astrolabe
a
blacke
concentricke
circle
,
representing
the
Aequinoctiall
circle
,
and
proiector
of
this
worke
,
but
without
any
diuisions
,
because
they
are
better
supplyed
by
the
limbe
.
Also
there
is
a
scale
of
the
radiall
degrees
,
whereon
this
proiectement
is
made
,
placed
at
the
master
circle
of
longit
.
beginning
the
Signe
♋
numbred
from
the
Equinoctiall
both
wayes
,
which
Equinoctiall
cutteth
the
sayde
eclipticke
circle
in
the
pointes
B
and
C
beginning
♈
and
♎
,
and
those
points
are
called
the
two
Aequinoctiall
Intersectiones
which
do
mooue
vppon
the
poles
of
the
Zodiacke
backwards
,
or
in
precedentia
,
of
the
Signes
euery
67
yeares
almost
a
degree
equally
:
carying
about
with
them
all
the
foresayde
circles
of
Longitude
and
Latitude
,
leauing
the
Starres
stocke
still
in
their
places
,
By
which
meanes
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
although
the
fixed
Starres
haue
no
manner
of
motion
at
all
,
yet
they
seeme
from
time
to
time
to
haue
gone
as
is
sayd
euery
67
yeares
almost
a
degree
forwards
,
as
the
auncient
Astronomers
thought
:
where
as
in
very
deede
(
as
Copernicus
sheweth
)
the
Zodiacke
and
all
his
circles
do
slide
so
much
backwards
from
them
:
And
by
reason
this
sliding
backe
of
the
Aequinoctiall
points
,
is
as
I
haue
sayd
performed
on
the
poles
D
and
his
opposite
of
the
clipticke
,
therefore
it
commeth
to
passe
that
the
fixed
Starres
could
thereby
neuer
change
theyr
Latitudes
,
but
keepe
the
same
Latitudes
as
euer
they
did
.
This
sliding
backe
,
is
called
Precessio
Aequinoctiorum
,
of
which
wee
will
intreate
more
in
the
30
Cap.
And
now
will
returne
to
this
proiectement
:
In
which
it
is
very
easye
to
imagine
euery
square
into
fiue
equall
partes
,
and
so
thereby
to
knowe
the
Longitude
and
Latitude
of
any
Starre
therein
sufficient
for
any
common
vse
.
As
for
example
,
the
great
Starre
in
the
left
foote
of
Orion
,
placed
in
the
Signe
♊
,
if
you
imagin
the
spaces
betweene
each
fiue
circles
of
Longitude
and
Latitude
deuided
into
fiue
partes
,
then
shall
you
conceaue
that
the
middle
pricke
of
this
Starre
is
heere
in
longitude
about
9
degrees
30
minut
.
of
♊
,
and
in
latitude
South
from
the
clipticke
circle
about
some
31
degrees
30
min.
and
so
for
any
of
the
rest
.
Cap.
3.
¶
Of
certaine
abbreuiated
termes
or
phrases
of
arte
,
appertayning
to
this
new
Astrolabe
.
BEcause
this
Astrolabe
is
newly
deuised
and
his
tackling
,
much
differing
from
all
other
heeretofore
both
in
fashion
,
vse
,
and
names
,
I
haue
therefore
heere
thought
good
to
premise
certaine
abbreuiated
termes
thereunto
fitly
appertaining
,
least
otherwise
such
long
iteracion
of
diuers
circumstances
as
at
euery
time
I
mention
them
I
should
be
driuen
to
vse
,
should
make
my
writings
yrkesome
,
and
my
booke
ouer
long
.
Which
tediousnes
to
auoyde
,
I
haue
further
not
onely
couched
diuers
precepts
and
propositions
almost
into
euery
Chapter
,
but
also
incorporated
the
examples
with
them
,
yet
in
another
letter
,
to
the
end
you
may
if
you
list
first
reade
ouer
euery
Chapter
,
leauing
out
the
example
euen
as
though
it
were
not
.
And
if
you
vnderstand
it
so
,
it
is
well
,
if
not
,
then
reade
it
,
and
practise
the
example
withall
.
-
Are
all
one
in
signification
,
but
in
this
practise
the
one
is
taken
in
the
noone
line
,
the
other
in
the
Zenith
line
of
the
place
,
as
in
the
1.
Cap.
is
noted
.
-
The
Verticall
point
,
-
The
Zenith
point
,
The
Horizontall
point
,
is
alwayes
that
radiall
degree
of
the
north
line
,
reckned
from
the
centre
which
is
equall
to
the
latitude
,
or
poles
eleuation
,
explaned
both
in
the
1.
&
10.
Cap.
The
Zenith
line
,
explaned
in
the
1.
and
10.
Cap.
The
North
and
South
degrees
,
are
the
90.
radiall
degrees
on
the
noone
and
north
lines
,
on
each
side
of
the
Verticall
point
explaned
in
the
10.
Cap.
The
East
and
West
Hemispheares
are
thus
,
in
euery
constitucion
of
this
Astrolabe
,
the
Fiduciall
line
of
the
Zenitfer
deuideth
the
Celestiall
,
in
halfe
of
which
,
that
halfe
Eastwards
of
the
noone
line
towards
vi
.
of
the
clocke
in
the
morning
,
I
call
the
East
Hemisphere
,
the
other
halfe
I
call
the
West
Hemispheare
.
To
play
the
Almicantifer
in
the
East
or
West
Hemisphere
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
to
keepe
him
moouing
wholy
on
the
East
,
or
West
side
of
the
noone
line
accordingly
.
To
apply
the
pointer
to
any
Starre
or
Carect
,
is
to
leade
the
Zenitfer
,
and
the
Almicantifer
about
,
till
you
may
cause
the
Apex
of
the
pointer
to
touch
the
carect
,
or
the
middle
prick
of
the
Starre
.
-
To
labell
the
Hower
to
the
Sunne
or
Starres
,
or
them
to
the
hower
.
explaned
in
the
13.
Cap.
-
To
prepare
the
Zenitfer
to
any
altitude
.
explaned
in
the
13.
Cap.
-
To
prepare
the
Zenitfer
to
the
Horizon
,
is
explaned
in
the
17.
Cap.
-
To
prepare
the
Almicantifer
to
a
particular
latitude
,
explaned
in
the
19.
Cap.
Also
when
it
is
sayd
,
Place
the
Zenitfer
,
or
Labell
to
any
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
:
it
is
meant
,
that
you
must
place
the
siduciall
lines
thereunto
,
and
that
with
relation
to
the
centre
.
The
complement
of
any
degree
is
so
much
as
it
lacketh
of
90.
degrees
.
Lastly
,
you
shall
vnderstand
,
that
in
writing
of
this
whole
worke
,
my
meaning
was
that
euery
man
should
haue
the
furniture
of
this
Astrolabe
(
whether
generall
or
particular
)
made
of
mettall
,
as
commonly
the
furnitures
of
Globes
are
,
For
which
,
if
any
man
shall
repaire
or
send
vnto
me
either
by
him selfe
,
or
by
Maister
Matts
the
bookeseller
,
dwelling
at
the
signe
of
the
Plough
ouer
against
S.
Dunstons
Church
in
Fleetstreete
,
who
shall
easily
at
all
times
send
any
letter
or
notice
weekely
vnto
me
by
our
Carryers
,
I
will
take
such
order
that
he
shall
haue
them
as
reasonably
done
as
may
be
.
And
to
the
ende
that
euery
man
may
see
how
it
ought
to
be
made
in
mettall
,
I
haue
caused
a
rude
patterne
of
each
furniture
in
mettall
to
remaine
with
the
sayd
Maister
Matts
.
Notwithstanding
,
for
such
as
will
not
go
to
that
little
charge
,
I
haue
vpon
better
aduisement
caused
the
Zenitfer
and
Cursor
to
be
imprinted
with
the
Astrolabe
,
to
be
set
either
on
pastboord
,
or
cuttlers
scale
to
serue
the
turne
:
But
in
stead
of
the
Almicantifer
and
his
pointer
,
then
must
they
vse
a
thred
and
pearle
,
which
shall
do
in
a
manner
as
well
,
for
the
pearle
shall
in
all
actions
supply
the
steede
of
the
pointer
.
And
in
steede
of
the
ledge
of
brasse
in
the
beginning
of
the
next
Cap.
mentioned
,
he
may
haply
cause
a
breadth
of
lantornes
horne
to
be
riuetted
ouer
the
Zodiacke
,
vnder
which
to
place
the
Carects
of
the
Planets
,
made
of
paste-boord
,
quilles
,
or
such
like
.
Cap.
4.
¶
How
to
place
Carects
of
the
Planets
in
this
Astrolabe
,
to
serue
there
the
whole
weeke
after
.
FOR
this
purpose
you
shall
take
a
paire
of
Compasse
,
and
pitch
his
one
foote
in
the
line
beginning
♑
at
25
degrees
from
the-cliptickes
pole
,
and
extend
the
other
in
the
same
line
vnto
7
degrees
of
latitude
,
and
with
that
quantity
describe
a
blinde
circle
,
on
which
blinde
circle
so
made
you
shal
place
a
narrow
hoope
of
lattin
brasse
,
riuetted
on
the
Mater
with
4
or
8
riuets
at
the
most
,
with
so
many
thin
bouisters
vnder
euery
riuer
,
that
the
hoope
presse
not
hard
on
the
Mater
,
to
the
end
that
you
may
thrust
vnder
it
some
9
Carrects
,
5
of
them
carying
two
Apices
or
pointers
ioynted
together
,
made
all
of
thin
mettall
and
very
narrow
,
vz.
7
for
the
7
Planets
,
and
2
for
the
Moones
cap
,
and
Cau.
draconis
,
there
to
sticke
very
fast
till
they
be
weekely
remooued
,
and
let
one
of
the
Apices
of
each
Carect
be
lesse
and
sleighter
then
the
other
,
which
you
shall
better
vnderstand
by
such
as
I
haue
,
and
shall
cause
to
be
ready
made
to
your
hand
then
by
manifold
words
.
These
things
prouided
for
,
then
at
the
beginning
of
any
weeke
of
any
yeare
proposed
(
Admit
for
the
beginning
of
the
first
Sunday
in
March
,
which
shall
be
Anno
Domini
1598.
)
you
shall
then
by
my
Organum
Vranicum
,
which
God
willing
,
long
before
that
day
shall
be
extant
,
or
by
your
Ephemeris
,
or
other
Tables
of
the
Planets
motions
get
the
true
places
of
euery
of
the
7
Planets
as
well
in
Longitude
as
Latitude
,
and
of
the
☊
and
☋
,
(
which
on
the
said
Sunday
being
the
5
day
of
March
1598
you
shall
by
Stadius
his
Ephemerides
,
finde
the
☉
to
be
25
degrees
3
minutes
in
♓
,
the
☽
2
degrees
40
minutes
in
♋
,
hir
Latitude
then
4
degrees
30
min.
North
,
♄
2.
degr.
32
min.
in
♎
,
in
Latit.
2
degr.
44
min.
North
,
♃
9
degr.
26
min.
in
♊
,
in
latit
.
South
0
38
min.
♐
in
♐
,
1
degr.
39
min.
in
♋
,
in
lat.
2
degr.
13
min.
North
,
♀
10
degr.
51
min.
in
♉
,
in
latit.
1
degr.
40
min.
North
,
☿
4
degr.
26
min.
in
♈
,
in
latit.
2
degr.
58
min.
North
,
☊
6.
degr.
16
min.
in
♓
,
the
☋
is
alwaies
opposite
,
vz.
6
degr.
16
min.
in
♍
,
both
which
,
and
likewise
the
☉
neuer
haue
latitude
.
)
Which
places
you
shall
reddily
finde
out
in
this
Astrolabe
,
by
meanes
of
the
circles
of
Longit.
and
Latit
.
thereon
described
,
and
vnto
them
set
the
chiefe
Apex
of
each
Planets
Carect
accordingly
,
carefully
prouiding
that
you
set
the
Apex
of
the
☉
his
Carect
iustly
to
the-clipticke
circle
mentioned
in
the
2
Cap.
at
his
exact
degree
and
minute
,
because
he
hath
no
Latitude
,
and
he
is
the
Chiefetaine
guide
in
all
our
worke
following
,
and
so
likewise
the
☊
and
☋
,
as
for
all
the
rest
,
you
shall
place
their
apices
vnto
the
paralell
circle
,
expressing
his
Latitude
at
his
degree
of
Longitude
reckoned
in
the
same
paralell
by
help
of
the
circles
of
longitude
:
Which
done
,
you
shall
then
againe
either
by
your
Vranicum
or
Ephemerides
,
get
in
like
sort
the
places
of
them
all
for
the
beginning
of
the
next
Sunday
following
(
which
will
be
the
12
day
of
March
that
yeare
1598.
the
☉
then
being
1
degr.
57
min.
in
♈
,
the
☽
27
deg.
8
min.
in
♍
,
hir
latit.
1
degr.
47
min.
North
,
♄
1
degr.
56
min.
in
♎
,
♃
10
degr.
24
min.
in
♊
,
♐
4
degr.
10
min.
in
♋
,
♀
16
degr.
46
min.
in
♉
,
☿
28
degr.
32
min.
in
♓
,
☊
5
degr.
54
min.
in
♓
,
as
for
their
latitudes
they
alter
little
or
nothing
in
6
or
7
dayes
.
)
and
to
those
places
accordingly
sought
in
this
Astrolabe
,
you
shall
set
the
petty
Apices
of
each
Carect
.
There
shall
they
serue
you
for
all
that
weeke
to
singuler
effects
,
and
presently
you
may
note
thus
much
,
that
if
the
petty
Apex
happen
to
be
thus
placed
in
sequens
of
the
Zodiacke
from
the
chiefe
Apex
,
then
be
sure
the
Planet
is
direct
,
if
in
precedens
,
(
as
in
☿
)
then
is
he
Retrograde
,
if
iust
one
vppon
another
,
then
Stationary
.
And
full
easy
will
it
be
to
imagin
the
spaces
betweene
the
two
Apices
of
each
Planets
carect
,
into
seuen
equall
partes
for
the
seuen
dayes
of
the
weeke
included
betweene
them
,
as
in
the
2.
Cap.
you
imagined
the
Squares
into
fiue
partes
,
and
so
reddily
to
conceiue
where
each
Planet
is
any
of
those
seuen
dayes
,
which
in
none
of
them
can
exceede
twise
7
Degrees
,
(
the
Moone
excepted
)
whose
gate
in
common
accoumpt
is
euery
two
houres
one
whole
Degree
,
and
euery
foure
and
twenty
houres
twelue
Degrees
.
Wherefore
for
her
,
eyther
you
must
relye
vppon
your
Almanacke
,
or
haue
foure
single
Carects
at
the
least
to
be
set
two
dayes
in
sunder
apeece
,
that
is
to
saye
,
the
one
to
bee
set
at
the
Moones
place
for
Sunday
noone
(
for
Astronomers
alwayes
begin
their
day
at
noone
,
because
the
Meridian
is
Horizon
rectus
)
the
second
to
be
set
for
Tewsday
noone
,
the
third
for
Thursday
noone
,
and
the
fourth
for
Saterday
noone
,
and
so
by
adding
or
subducting
of
12
degrees
for
a
day
,
and
two
degrees
for
an
houre
,
her
place
shall
sufficiently
well
be
had
.
Her
motion
is
very
swift
,
and
her
Prosthapheresis
,
or
Aequacions
,
caused
by
her
epicicles
,
may
happily
breede
error
of
7
or
8
degrees
in
one
weeke
,
from
that
common
accoumpt
of
two
houres
to
a
degree
,
otherwise
two
Carects
might
haue
sufficed
,
but
in
two
dayes
her
greatest
gate
being
but
12
degrees
either
before
or
behinde
one
of
the
carects
,
can
breede
no
error
to
be
regarded
,
if
you
recken
it
from
that
carect
vnto
which
she
is
neerest
.
Cap.
5.
¶
How
by
this
new
Astrolabe
to
finde
the
true
place
of
the
Sunne
perpetually
.
IN
my
Organum
Vranicum
shortly
like
to
come
foorth
,
you
shall
haue
the
Kalender
of
the
yere
,
the
Cicle
of
the
Sunne
,
and
all
such
necessary
supplements
.
And
therefore
in
this
Astrolabe
,
which
I
do
appoint
to
be
alwayes
anexed
thereunto
,
and
to
be
but
the
back
side
,
or
Dorsum
Vranici
,
I
haue
framed
no
Kalender
at
all
or
Theoricke
of
the
☉
as
commonly
all
other
Astrolabes
haue
.
Yet
to
serue
the
turne
vntill
the
Vranicum
come
foorth
,
or
for
them
that
would
content
themselues
without
the
other
,
as
happily
some
will
in
regard
of
the
charge
of
the
other
,
which
can
not
well
be
framed
but
of
mettall
,
I
haue
in
the
12
Signes
of
the
Zodiackes
Orbs
placed
the
12
letters
of
the
12
Moneths
,
vz.
I
for
Ianuary
,
F
for
February
,
&c.
at
such
degree
and
minute
of
the-clipticke
as
they
doe
make
their
entraunce
the
Radicall
yeare
of
my
sayd
Vranicum
,
being
the
yeare
after
Christ
1600.
by
help
of
which
you
shall
for
euer
it
you
will
,
finde
the
true
place
of
the
Sunne
within
3
or
4
minutes
,
so
you
regard
but
three
obseruaunces
which
I
shall
heere
deliuer
you
.
The
first
is
,
concerning
the
Leape
yeare
,
and
is
remedied
by
rebating
some
quarter
of
a
degree
for
euery
yeare
following
the
Leape
yeare
till
it
be
Leape
yeare
againe
.
The
second
is
,
concerning
the
fiue
odde
dayes
in
the
yeare
aboue
360.
and
is
remedied
by
rebating
for
euery
day
of
the
moneth
,
proposed
but
one
minute
.
The
third
is
,
concerning
ages
past
or
to
come
,
the
remedie
whereof
,
I
will
shew
in
the
end
of
this
Cap.
Now
therefore
for
the
time
present
,
vz.
for
some
20
yeares
if
neede
be
before
or
behinde
the
yeare
1600.
it
serueth
fitly
as
it
is
vpon
euery
Leape
yeare
,
(
because
his
roote
1600
is
a
Leape
yeare
)
without
any
obseruacion
more
then
for
the
fiue
odde
dayes
which
is
generall
in
euery
yeare
:
and
for
any
common
yeare
with
very
little
trouble
,
as
I
shall
shewe
in
this
manner
:
Wherefore
if
you
will
know
what
degree
and
minute
the
Sunne
is
in
vpon
any
day
and
yeare
assigned
.
First
,
seeke
by
the
Zodiacke
for
the
letter
of
the
Moneth
in
which
your
day
is
(
vz.
For
the
letter
I
seruing
for
Iune
,
which
is
placed
at
the
20
degree
and
somewhat
more
in
♊
,
and
the
number
6
ascribed
thereto
,
signifieth
6
minutes
more
then
the
20
degrees
,
the
exact
place
of
that
letter
I.
)
And
from
that
letter
(
vz.
I
)
number
forwards
so
many
degrees
of
the
Clipticke
as
your
day
(
the
8
of
Iune
)
proposed
is
within
your
moneth
(
Iune
)
proposed
,
rebating
so
many
minutes
,
according
to
the
second
obseruaunce
before
mentioned
(
vz.
for
your
8
dayes
,
recken
8
degrees
in
sequens
of
that
20
deg.
6
min.
of
♊
lacking
8
min.
)
and
where
that
accoumpt
falleth
out
(
which
you
shall
finde
vppon
that
reckning
and
rebating
of
8
minutes
,
to
be
27
degrees
58
minutes
of
♊
.
)
there
shall
be
the
true
place
of
the
☉
if
it
be
a
Leape
yeare
(
as
this
yeare
1596
is
)
and
there
(
vz.
at
the
saide
27
degrees
58
minutes
of
♊
)
you
may
place
the
Carect
of
the
Sunne
for
that
day
,
as
in
the
last
Chapter
is
taught
.
But
if
it
shall
be
the
first
yeare
after
the
Leape
yeare
,
then
shall
you
rebate
a
quarter
of
a
degree
,
or
14
⅓
min.
(
if
you
will
be
precise
)
if
the
second
yeare
,
then
rebate
halfe
a
degree
,
if
the
third
,
rebate
¾
of
a
degree
,
and
then
euery
Leape
yeare
it
returneth
to
his
owne
place
againe
.
And
this
for
almost
twenty
yeares
eyther
before
or
behinde
the
Radicall
yeare
1600
shall
serue
passing
well
and
reddye
within
some
foure
or
fiue
minutes
,
but
for
any
time
after
the
yeare
1600
you
shall
neede
but
adde
,
and
for
any
time
before
subtract
some
halfe
quarter
of
a
Degree
(
or
8
¾
minutes
if
you
will
be
precise
)
for
euery
20
yeares
.
(
As
for
Example
for
the
place
of
the
☉
the
8
day
of
March
in
the
yeare
1700.
because
betweene
the
yeare
1600
and
1700
,
there
are
fiue
times
20
yeares
,
therefore
I
adde
fiue
diquarters
of
a
degree
(
or
to
be
precise
fiue
times
8
¾
minutes
which
maketh
44
¾
minutes
)
vnto
the
foresaid
27
degr.
58
min.
in
♊
,
and
it
maketh
28
degrees
,
42
¾
minutes
,
which
is
the
true
place
of
the
☉
on
the
8
day
of
Iune
,
Anno.
1700.
)
And
because
you
shall
worke
the
more
certaine
,
I
haue
to
euery
of
the
12
letters
of
the
moneths
,
set
the
number
of
the
minutes
of
that
degree
where
his
right
place
should
be
,
which
place
is
also
descryed
by
a
little
stroke
or
string
cutting
the
true
place
of
the
same
Degree
,
and
leading
thence
to
the
letter
,
if
it
be
not
placed
directly
therewith
.
Also
you
must
not
forget
for
ages
past
or
to
come
,
to
adde
or
subtract
the
Aequacion
of
the
8
Speere
,
as
in
the
30
Cap.
shall
be
shewed
according
to
the
words
Adiectiue
or
Ablatiue
there
mentioned
,
for
that
will
from
time
to
time
alter
this
true
place
of
the
Sunne
,
euen
vnto
1
⅙
Degrees
,
about
800
yeares
to
come
,
or
passed
.
Although
some
others
haue
ouerslipped
in
their
Theoricks
of
the
☉
both
this
,
and
the
third
obseruacion
before
.
(
For
example
you
shall
by
the
30
Cap.
finde
the
8
Speares
Aequation
12
¼
minutes
ablatiue
for
the
yeare
1700
,
and
so
will
the
true
place
then
be
but
28
degrees
30
½
minutes
for
the
8
of
Iune
.
)
After
many
words
thus
spent
,
the
precept
is
briefely
thus
:
Suppose
euery
degree
of
the-clipticke
to
be
a
day
of
the
yeare
,
rebating
for
euery
day
a
minute
,
and
for
euery
of
the
three
common
yeares
14
⅓
minutes
,
and
thus
farre
it
serueth
for
all
times
.
But
now
i●
your
time
be
after
1600
,
you
must
for
the
motus
equalis
compositus
adde
8
¾
degrees
for
euery
20
yeares
,
and
for
euery
20
yeare
before
1650
adde
5
min.
for
the
8
spheeres
equation
:
and
contrariwise
,
if
being
before
1600
and
after
1650
you
must
subduct
as
much
.
Note
,
that
I
haue
been
sithence
enformed
that
our
honourable
Lords
departed
the
3
of
Iune
,
but
let
the
8
of
Iune
now
stand
for
the
example
,
nothing
hurtfull
.
Cap.
6.
¶
How
to
rectifye
the
true
place
of
the
Sunne
to
all
places
of
the
world
.
MY
good
meaning
determining
this
Astrolabe
as
a
fit
recreacion
or
play-game
for
trauellers
by
Sea
,
to
driue
away
the
tediousnes
of
their
iourneying
,
may
soonest
of
all
deceiue
them
in
getting
the
true
place
of
the
☉
,
whether
by
the
Ephemeris
,
or
by
the
last
Cap.
or
by
my
Organum
Vranicum
,
if
they
haue
not
a
speciall
regard
to
the
changing
of
their
Meridians
as
they
trauayle
:
for
which
cause
,
I
haue
caused
a
new
description
of
the
terestriall
Globe
to
be
made
after
my
fashion
in
one
face
,
where
others
make
them
still
in
two
faces
:
and
both
that
terestriall
and
this
celestiall
,
are
principally
meant
by
me
to
serue
vnto
my
Vranicum
,
and
to
be
placed
in
the
inner
sides
of
his
case
as
necessary
appendices
,
though
of
itselfe
it
bee
an
Instrument
sufficient
without
these
.
Of
this
terestriall
I
doe
at
this
time
(
although
hauing
manye
extraordinary
conceites
to
applye
him
for
Nauigation
,
and
other
necessities
to
write
of
)
determine
to
deliuer
but
this
Chapter
,
therein
to
let
you
vnderstande
,
that
in
the
limbe
circle
about
it
which
representeth
the
Aequinoctiall
circle
at
the
Meridian
cutting
vpon
London
,
I
haue
placed
a
rundle
with
a
crosse
,
and
at
the
opposite
Meridian
the
number
of
12.
signifying
12
houres
,
and
betweene
these
on
both
sides
are
11
other
rundles
for
houres
,
so
is
that
whole
circle
deuided
into
twise
12
houres
,
and
numbred
both
wayes
from
the
crosse
rundle
,
signifying
how
many
houres
the
Sunne
or
any
Planet
or
Starre
hath
to
go
from
our
Meridian
at
London
(
when
any
of
them
come
vnto
it
)
before
it
can
come
to
the
Meridian
of
another
place
,
or
being
in
another
place
,
how
many
houres
it
must
go
ere
it
come
to
ours
.
And
in
regard
that
the
gate
of
the
☉
is
euery
24
houres
a
degree
of
the-clipticke
,
therefore
you
must
adde
or
subtract
from
his
place
found
either
in
the
last
Cap.
or
the
Ephemerides
,
or
my
Vranicum
,
according
to
the
rate
thereof
,
vz.
for
euery
12
houres
,
about
30
minutes
of
a
degree
,
and
for
6
houres
15
minutes
,
&c.
As
for
example
,
admit
you
being
a
trauayler
should
be
the
fift
day
of
March
1598
in
the
4.
Cap.
mentioned
in
the
great
City
of
Quinsay
in
the
countrey
of
China
,
and
there
seeking
for
the
true
place
of
the
Sunne
at
noone
,
had
found
it
25
degrees
3
minutes
in
♓
as
in
the
4.
Cap.
it
was
.
Now
because
the
Meridian
of
Quinsay
appeareth
in
this
Terestriall
by
the
said
houre
rundles
almost
9
houres
distant
from
the
Meridian
of
London
or
rather
of
Anwerp
if
you
worke
by
Stadius
Ephemerides
,
or
the
last
Cap.
and
that
towards
the
East
:
Therefore
the
☉
commeth
so
much
sooner
to
the
meridian
or
noone
at
Quinsay
,
for
which
cause
you
must
in
this
case
rebate
so
much
of
the
Sunnes
diurnall
gate
of
60
minutes
,
as
9
houres
commeth
to
,
vz.
22
minutes
,
so
will
the
Sunne
that
day
at
noone
in
that
countrye
be
but
24
degrees
41
min.
in
♓
,
which
in
the
4
Cap.
was
found
to
be
25
degrees
3
minutes
in
♓
.
And
if
your
place
had
beene
so
much
Westwards
,
then
should
you
haue
added
22
minutes
vnto
25
degrees
3
minutes
in
♓
.
You
may
also
performe
the
same
reddily
by
the
next
Cap.
applying
the
Labell
vnto
30
minut
.
of
the
sextans
,
for
so
much
is
the
semidiurnall
gate
of
the
Sunne
commonly
.
Cap.
7.
¶
How
to
rectifye
the
place
of
the
☽
or
of
any
other
Planet
to
any
other
Meridian
.
THere
is
more
neede
to
haue
regard
of
this
matter
for
the
☽
,
because
her
motion
is
very
swift
euen
euery
two
houres
about
a
degree
,
then
in
any
other
of
the
Planets
:
and
for
reddyer
performance
heereof
,
the
Horarium
Planetarium
in
the
29
Cap.
mentioned
,
shall
yeeld
you
speciall
helpe
,
if
you
imagine
the
10
houres
of
the
Arch
of
the
sextans
to
be
10
degrees
,
and
cause
the
planetary
Index
to
be
numbred
for
this
purpose
into
12
houres
from
the
Centre
outwards
.
Now
when
you
will
rectifie
the
true
place
of
any
Planet
(
admit
of
the
☽
)
at
noone
any
day
proposed
(
admit
the
5.
day
of
March
1598
)
to
another
Meridian
(
admit
to
the
Meridian
of
Quinsay
.
)
First
you
shall
get
the
semidiurnall
gate
of
the
Planet
by
taking
the
motion
of
the
day
proposed
(
vz.
2
degr.
40
min.
in
♋
)
out
of
the
motion
of
the
day
following
(
being
the
6
day
of
March
,
and
the
Moones
place
or
motion
then
15
degr.
1.
min.
in
♋
)
and
take
halfe
the
remaine
(
vz.
6
degr.
10
min.
)
which
you
shall
seeke
in
the
arche
of
the
sextans
(
as
though
they
were
6
houres
10
min.
)
and
thereto
set
the
Index
,
there
let
him
stay
.
Then
as
in
the
last
Cap.
is
taught
,
seeke
the
houre
distaunce
of
the
Meridian
of
the
other
place
(
vz.
of
Quinsay
)
from
yours
,
vz.
from
that
of
Anwerpe
(
for
Stadius
)
but
for
my
Vranicum
from
London
,
(
admit
the
houre
distaunce
8
houres
and
an
halfe
)
and
that
distaunce
seeke
in
the
Index
planted
as
before
by
the
numbers
reckned
from
the
Centre
outwards
vnto
12
,
and
marke
what
paralell
cutteth
the
Index
there
(
vz.
at
the
sayd
8
½
houre
thereof
)
and
follow
it
to
the
arche
of
the
Sextans
,
which
shall
there
shew
you
(
4
degrees
30
minutes
)
the
motion
of
the
Planet
answerable
to
that
houre
distaunce
of
their
Meridians
,
which
if
it
be
Westwards
from
your
Meridian
,
you
shall
adde
to
,
if
Eastwards
(
as
heere
it
is
)
then
subtract
out
of
the
place
of
the
Planet
found
(
vz.
out
of
2
degrees
40
minutes
of
♋
)
and
so
shall
you
haue
(
28
degrees
10
minutes
in
♊
)
the
true
rectified
place
of
the
Planet
to
that
Meridian
proposed
.
Note
,
that
for
♄
,
♃
,
♂
,
♀
,
☿
,
and
the
☉
,
whose
semidurnall
gates
seldome
exceede
minutes
,
you
may
take
3
or
4
houres
of
the
Sextans
for
one
degree
,
and
worke
as
before
most
exact
.
Cap.
8.
¶
How
to
know
the
declinacion
and
right
ascencion
of
any
Planet
,
fixed
Starre
,
or
point
of
the
heauens
,
and
their
degree
of
Culminacion
.
THere
are
in
the
Mater
,
or
Celestiall
of
this
Astrolabe
,
to
auoide
confusion
,
only
two
sorts
of
circles
delineated
,
&
those
are
the
circles
of
the-clipticks
longitude
and
latitude
in
the
2.
Cap.
mentioned
,
issuing
from
his
Pole
D
to
his
opposite
.
And
the
very
like
vnto
those
ought
to
haue
been
delineated
,
issuing
from
the
Poles
of
the
world
,
limitting
the
right
assentions
and
declinations
of
the
Starres
,
in
regard
of
the
Equinoctiall
,
and
are
commonly
called
Meridians
and
Paralells
,
which
because
the
nature
of
this
proiectement
doth
cast
the
Meridians
into
streight
lines
issuing
from
the
Poles
,
both
lodged
in
the
Centre
vnto
euery
of
the
360
degrees
of
the
Equinoctiall
,
or
rather
of
the
limbe
and
the
parallells
into
concentricke
circles
,
they
are
therefore
supplyed
by
playing
about
the
radiall
degrees
of
the
noone-lines
on
the
Centre
,
by
the
degrees
of
the
limbe
,
and
might
as
well
be
done
by
a
thred
&
pearle
applyed
to
the
radyall
degrees
of
the
Scale
planted
at
the
beginning
of
♋
.
Further
you
shall
vnderstand
that
countrey
is
sayd
to
haue
a
right
Horizon
,
vnto
which
some
one
of
the
Meridians
is
Horizon
,
that
is
to
say
,
where
the
Aequinoctiall
passeth
by
the
Zenith
or
point
directly
ouer
head
,
called
the
Verticall
point
,
and
both
the
poles
of
the
world
euen
with
the
Horizon
,
and
neither
of
them
eleuated
,
all
other
Horizons
where
either
Pole
is
eleuated
,
are
called
oblique
Horizons
.
Now
therefore
when
you
are
to
get
the
right
ascension
of
any
Planet-Starre
,
or
point
of
the
heauens
assigned
,
you
are
but
to
learne
what
Meridian
and
Paralell
cutteth
the
same
,
and
if
you
do
but
lay
the
noone-line
thereon
,
it
sheweth
you
in
the
limbe
the
right
ascention
,
and
in
the
scale
of
the
Radiall
degrees
on
the
noone-line
the
declinacion
.
For
example
,
the
Sunnes
Apex
placed
at
the
26
degree
3
minut
.
of
♓
by
the
2
cap.
lay
the
noone-line
thereto
,
and
it
shall
shewe
you
in
the
limbe
356
degrees
25
minutes
his
right
ascencion
,
and
among
the
radiall
degrees
of
the
noone-line
1
degr.
30
min.
his
declinacion
,
and
that
Southwards
of
the
Equinoctiall
.
For
the
5
day
of
March
1598
likewise
apply
the
noone-line
vnto
the
chiefe
Carect
of
♄
there
placed
at
2
degr.
27
min.
in
♎
,
and
in
latitude
2
degr
44
min.
North
,
and
it
shall
shew
you
in
the
limbe
182
degrees
his
right
ascencion
,
and
among
the
radiall
degrees
,
1
degr.
10
min.
his
declinacion
South
from
the
equinoctiall
the
same
5
of
March
1598.
Againe
,
if
for
any
Starre
,
as
admit
the
great
Starre
of
the
first
light
in
or
neere
the
eye
of
the
Bull
,
called
Oculus
tauri
,
the
noone-line
layd
thereon
,
sheweth
in
the
limbe
63
degrees
30
min.
his
right
ascencion
,
and
16
degrees
his
declinacion
North
from
the
equinoctiall
,
though
he
be
in
latitude
South
from
the-clipticke
,
and
it
cutteth
in
the
Zodiacke
the
5
degree
35
min.
of
♊
his
degree
of
culminacion
:
for
alwayes
the
degree
of
the-clipticke
which
coascendeth
or
cutteth
any
Meridian
or
right
Horizon
with
any
Starre
,
or
other
point
of
the
heauens
,
is
called
the
degree
of
his
Culminacion
,
because
the
Meridian
of
any
place
is
called
Culmen
Celi
.
Cap.
9.
¶
How
to
finde
the
true
Meridian
in
any
countrey
by
helpe
of
this
Astrolabe
.
THE
Meridian
circle
of
any
latitude
,
is
that
great
circle
of
the
Spheare
which
passeth
by
the
Zenith
or
verticall
point
of
that
place
,
and
a
line
drawne
by
his
two
intersections
with
the
Horizon
there
,
is
called
the
Meridian
line
.
Also
,
that
Starre
which
in
this
Astrolabe
you
see
in
the
outermost
tip
of
the
tayle
of
Vrsa
Minor
,
is
commonly
called
the
Pole
starre
,
in
Latin
Stella
polaris
,
or
Cinosura
,
which
in
this
age
is
some
3
½
degree
distant
from
the
true
North
point
or
pole
of
the
world
,
although
the
ordinary
sort
take
it
to
be
the
Pole
it selfe
,
yet
in
euery
age
to
come
by
reason
of
the
foresaid
sliding
backe
of
the
equinoctiall
points
,
he
shall
draw
neerer
and
neerer
to
the
Pole
vntill
the
yeare
2220
after
Christ
,
and
then
shall
he
be
but
30
minutes
from
the
Pole
,
and
his
longitude
shall
be
then
0
in
♋
,
from
whence
he
will
then
begin
to
elongate
againe
from
the
Pole
till
he
come
to
0
in
♑
about
the
yeare
15120
,
at
which
time
his
distance
from
the
Pole
shall
be
47
degrees
30
minutes
.
And
whereas
Petrus
Nonius
sayth
,
that
in
times
past
he
hath
been
12
degrees
24
minutes
from
the
Pole
,
and
is
now
3
degrees
30
minutes
,
happily
he
meaneth
from
the
creation
of
the
world
.
This
Pole-Starre
in
our
age
is
found
to
culminate
with
the
6
degr.
20
min.
of
♈
,
and
to
be
88
degr.
24
min.
declining
North
from
the
equinoctiall
:
on
which
6
degr.
20
min.
of
♈
if
you
lay
the
Noone-line
,
you
shall
first
thereby
see
what
Starres
do
continually
culminate
or
come
vnto
the
Meridian
with
it
,
and
you
shall
finde
it
to
cut
on
the
faire
Starre
of
the
third
light
,
in
the
pummell
of
the
chayer
of
Cassiopeia
,
and
another
of
the
same
light
the
northermost
of
the
girdle
of
Andromeda
,
and
in
the
opposite
part
,
vz.
by
the
North
line
,
you
shall
see
the
60
degr.
20
min
of
♎
to
culminate
almost
with
the
innermost
of
the
three
in
the
tayle
tayle
of
Vrsa
maior
called
Alioth
,
and
two
of
the
Starres
of
♍
,
But
that
of
Cassiopeia
,
and
that
of
Vrsa
maior
are
best
for
this
purpose
.
Hauing
thus
by
your
Astrolabe
found
out
a
Starre
or
two
which
haue
the
same
degree
of
culminating
any
Meridian
as
the
Pole-Starre
hath
,
now
shall
you
neede
but
in
any
starry
night
to
hang
vp
some
line
,
or
erect
some
round
pole
or
staffe
perpendiculer
to
your
Horizon
,
and
then
watch
the
going
about
of
the
Starres
,
vntill
some
one
of
those
two
Starres
come
with
the
sayd
Pole-Starre
very
euen
and
directly
with
your
perpendiculer
,
for
then
be
sure
that
those
two
are
both
directly
in
the
Meridian
:
Wherefore
you
shall
then
speedily
plant
another
perpendiculer
iust
betweene
your
first
and
the
sayd
two
Starres
,
and
there
let
them
remaine
continually
,
for
they
shall
serue
you
for
many
good
purposes
at
any
time
after
both
day
and
night
,
in
stead
of
a
Meridian
,
I
could
set
you
downe
many
wayes
more
,
but
this
is
most
pertinent
to
this
Instrument
,
and
is
of
all
other
the
readyest
,
especially
when
as
by
the
22
Cap.
following
you
shall
before-hand
know
what
houre
these
Starres
will
come
to
the
Meridian
,
that
you
neede
not
watch
long
for
them
.
Cap.
10.
¶
How
to
attaine
the
latitude
or
Poles
eleuation
in
any
Countrey
vnknowne
,
and
to
choose
out
the
Verticall
point
in
the
noone-line
,
the
Horizontall
point
in
the
North
line
,
with
the
Zenith
line
seruing
thereunto
.
THe
Latitude
of
any
place
,
is
the
distaunce
of
his
Verticall
point
from
the
Aequinoctiall
,
counted
by
the
degrees
of
his
Meridian
circle
on
the
South
part
,
and
is
alwayes
equall
to
the
eleuacion
of
the
Pole
of
the
world
aboue
the
Horizon
counted
in
the
same
Meridian
on
the
North
part
,
either
of
which
can
neuer
exceede
90
degrees
:
for
which
cause
,
there
are
in
the
Zenitfer
90
Zenith
lines
described
,
to
serue
euery
turne
.
And
the
reddiest
and
most
sure
way
to
get
the
latitude
in
any
strange
place
,
hauing
by
the
last
Cap.
setled
your
Meridian
,
is
to
take
the
Meridian
altitudes
of
some
one
North
Starre
that
neuer
commeth
South
of
the
Zenith
there
,
both
aboue
and
vnder
the
Pole
,
then
take
the
greater
Altitude
out
of
the
lesser
,
and
of
the
remaine
adde
the
one
halfe
to
the
lesser
,
so
haue
you
the
latitude
or
Poles
Eleuauion
sought
,
whose
complement
is
the
Equinoctials
eleuacion
aboue
the
South
point
of
the
Horizon
.
For
example
,
admit
the
first
Starre
of
the
tayle
of
Vrsa
maior
called
Alioth
,
if
you
obserue
his
comming
to
the
Meridian
aboue
the
Pole-Starre
,
and
there
finde
his
altitude
to
be
84
degrees
high
,
and
afterwards
finding
him
againe
in
the
Meridian
vnder
the
Pole
(
which
will
be
some
12
houres
betweene
)
and
there
but
19
⅓
degrees
high
,
then
take
19
⅓
out
of
84
there
resteth
64
⅔
,
halfe
that
being
32
⅓
added
to
19
⅓
maketh
51
⅔
our
eleuacion
heere
at
Reading
,
and
so
much
is
our
Zenith
,
or
Verticall
point
,
all
is
one
,
distant
from
the
Equinoctiall
,
and
that
51
⅔
taken
out
of
90
,
leaueth
the
complement
38
⅓
the
Equinoctials
height
aboue
the
Horizon
in
our
Meridian
.
Now
,
if
you
will
choose
out
in
the
noone-line
of
the
Zenitfer
the
Verticall
point
fitting
thereunto
,
recken
thereon
from
the
equinoctial
intersection
,
with
the
noone-line
by
the
radiall
degrees
and
numbers
thereon
set
betweene
the
Centre
and
Meridies
,
your
latitude
found
,
for
there
shall
be
your
Verticall
point
desired
(
vz.
for
our
Eleuacion
heere
at
Reading
,
the
Pole
being
51
⅔
degrees
high
,
I
reckon
that
by
the
numbers
in
the
noone-line
,
and
there
I
conclude
is
our
Verticall
point
,
or
of
any
Countrey
hauing
like
latitude
.
)
Likewise
reckon
on
the
North
line
from
the
Centre
towardes
Media
nox
,
your
sayde
latitude
founde
(
vz.
the
said
51
degrees
40
minutes
,
)
and
there
shall
be
the
place
or
point
of
your
Horizons
intersection
,
with
the
North
part
of
your
Meridian
(
51
degrees
40
minutes
vnder
the
Pole
)
which
I
call
the
Horizontall
point
.
And
betweene
the
Verticall
and
Horizontall
points
thus
founde
,
you
shall
alwaies
finde
90
Radiall
degrees
complete
and
no
more
,
which
90
degrees
are
the
true
intersections
or
crossings
of
the
90
Almicantares
of
that
latitude
with
the
North
part
of
the
Meridian
,
which
for
breuities
sake
I
will
heereafter
call
the
North
degrees
,
and
those
90
degrees
of
the
noone-line
from
the
Verticall
point
towards
Meridies
,
I
will
call
the
South
degrees
,
both
which
in
a
particular
would
be
numbred
from
the
two
Horizontall
points
,
vnto
the
Zenith
or
Verticall
point
,
there
ending
at
90
accordingly
.
Now
for
the
Zenith
line
in
the
Zenitfer
appertaining
to
your
latitude
found
,
it
is
easily
chosen
by
the
numbers
ascribed
to
the
inner
ends
of
those
90
Zenith
lines
,
as
in
the
1
cap.
is
shewed
,
which
90
inner
ends
are
the
90
Zenith
points
,
and
do
answere
by
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Cursor
,
vnto
the
90
Verticall
points
of
the
noone-line
,
(
vz.
the
51
⅔
Zenith
line
must
be
chosen
for
our
latitude
heere
at
Reading
,
)
euery
of
them
carrying
his
90
Almicantare
rootes
distinguished
by
the
curued
lines
,
and
numbred
from
their
outermost
end
inwards
towards
their
Zenith
points
,
as
in
the
1.
Cap.
is
shewed
.
Your
Verticall
point
,
Horizon●●●
po●●●
,
and
your
Zenith
line
appertaining
thus
found
,
you
must
in
any
wise
marke
them
specially
from
the
rest
except
your
memory
be
good
,
the
reddier
to
finde
them
in
all
your
actions
.
Cap.
11.
¶
How
to
take
the
Meridian
Altitude
of
the
Sunne
,
or
any
Planet
or
Starre
,
and
thereby
to
get
the
latitude
in
any
Countrey
.
IT
is
a
matter
very
easy
and
common
,
either
by
a
Quadrant
with
a
line
and
plummet
,
or
by
the
circle
or
this
Astrolabe
hanged
perpendiculer
,
furnished
with
a
rule
and
two
sightes
to
take
an
altitude
:
for
the
Sunne
,
by
suffering
the
Sunne-beames
to
pearce
the
sight-holes
,
and
for
Starres
by
applying
the
sightes
to
your
eye
,
which
altitude
of
the
Sunne
or
any
Starre
being
taken
in
the
direct
South
or
North
by
help
of
your
Meridian
set
by
the
9
cap.
is
called
the
Meridian
altitude
.
But
if
you
haue
no
Meridian
set
,
place
your
Quadrant
or
Astrolabe
towards
the
South
or
North
,
and
thereby
obserue
the
seuerall
altitudes
of
the
Sunne
or
Starres
as
they
rise
higher
and
higher
,
and
the
highest
shall
be
the
Meridian
altitude
.
Where
note
,
that
such
Starres
whose
declinacions
exceede
the
latitudes
complement
,
do
come
twise
vnto
the
Meridian
at
12
houres
betweene
,
yet
neuer
come
South
of
the
Zenith
,
or
Verticall
point
.
The
Meridian
altitude
thus
had
(
As
for
example
heere
at
Reading
the
2
of
October
1596
about
3
of
the
clocke
in
the
morning
,
I
obserued
the
comming
of
the
Starre
oculus
Tauri
to
the
Meridian
,
and
there
tooke
his
Meridian
Altitude
by
a
Quadrant
54
⅓
degrees
)
take
it
out
of
90
degrees
(
vz.
54
⅓
out
of
90
)
so
haue
〈◊〉
(
35
⅔
)
the
complement
or
verticall
distance
of
the
Planet
or
Starre
(
oculus
♉
)
proposed
,
from
the
Zenith
of
your
being
.
Now
if
this
Meridian
Altitude
happen
on
the
North
from
your
Zenith
,
then
must
you
place
the
North
line
of
your
Zenitfer
on
the
centre
of
your
Planet
or
Starre
found
out
in
this
Astrolabe
:
but
if
it
happen
South
of
your
Zenith
,
(
As
heere
this
Meridian
altitude
of
ocul
.
♉
did
from
our
Zenith
at
Reading
)
then
bring
the
noone-line
thereto
.
And
from
that
touching
of
the
Starres
centre
therewith
,
(
which
you
shall
finde
to
touch
at
16
degrees
,
as
they
are
on
the
noone-line
there
numbered
)
you
shall
recken
inwards
towards
the
centre
of
the
Celestiall
so
many
degrees
as
the
sayd
verticall
distaunce
amounteth
vnto
,
(
vz.
the
saide
35
⅔
degrees
)
and
the
end
of
that
reckoning
shall
assuredly
shewe
you
(
51
⅔
)
in
the
noone-line
the
Zenith
point
of
your
being
,
whose
number
ascribed
(
vz.
the
saide
51
⅔
)
is
your
latitude
desired
,
(
thereby
I
might
conclude
,
that
the
latitude
heere
at
Reading
was
51
⅔
degrees
)
whose
Horizontall
point
and
Zenith
line
you
may
easily
finde
out
by
the
last
Cap.
Cap.
12.
¶
How
to
know
what
day
of
the
yeare
it
were
if
it
were
forgotten
.
GEt
the
Latitude
by
the
10
or
11
cap.
(
admit
our
latitude
51
⅔
degrees
)
and
the
meridian
altitude
of
the
☉
by
the
last
cap.
(
admit
25
degrees
)
recken
the
complement
thereof
(
vz.
65
degrees
)
in
the
noone-line
from
the
Verticall
point
towards
Meridies
,
and
looke
what
radiall
degrees
it
falleth
at
(
you
shall
finde
it
at
13
½
degrees
Southwards
from
the
equinoctial
intersection
)
and
apply
that
degree
by
moouing
about
the
Zenitfer
vnto
the
clipticke
circle
,
according
as
you
gesse
the
time
of
the
yeare
to
be
,
vz.
If
you
thinke
it
to
be
betweene
Midsomer
and
Christmas
,
then
apply
the
same
13
⅓
degr.
)
vnto
the
autumnall
hemicicle
,
where
♋
☊
♍
♎
♏
&
♐
are
,
(
where
it
must
needes
touch
vpon
the
24
degree
of
♒
)
if
betweene
Christmas
and
Midsomer
then
vnto
the
vernall
hemicircle
of
the
others
Signes
(
where
it
must
needes
our
the
6
of
♏
)
and
there
shall
most
assu●edly
be
th●
tru●
〈…〉
the
Sunne
for
that
day
.
Which
bring
had
:
then
you
may
easily
by
the
5.
Cap.
euersed
as
well
finde
the
day
answerable
thereto
,
as
there
you
found
the
Sunnes
place
answerable
to
the
day
vice
versa
.
Prouided
that
the
Sunnes
place
be
rectified
as
in
the
6.
Cap.
if
neede
be
.
Cap.
13.
¶
How
to
know
what
it
is
a
clocke
at
any
time
either
night
or
day
,
by
the
S●nne
,
Planets
,
or
Starres
.
YOu
must
alwayes
intend
that
the
Planets
are
weekely
placed
,
as
in
the
3.
Cap.
is
taught
.
Also
obserue
this
rule
generall
,
to
keepe
the
noone-line
of
the
Zenitfer
still
vpwards
,
by
turning
about
your
Astrolabe
,
imagining
your
face
turned
still
to
the
South
,
except
when
you
are
specially
to
deale
with
the
North
line
,
then
keepe
him
vpwards
,
and
then
imagine
your
face
turned
towards
the
North.
Now
when
you
desire
to
knowe
the
houre
of
the
day
or
night
,
you
shall
as
in
the
last
Cap.
is
mentioned
,
either
by
a
Quadrant
,
or
this
Astrolabe
,
take
the
Altitude
of
the
Sunne
at
any
time
in
the
day
or
in
the
night
of
any
Starre
.
(
For
Example
this
yeare
1596
the
2
of
October
in
the
morning
at
my
poore
house
at
Swallowfeyld
by
Reading
,
to
see
how
the
time
passed
,
I
tooke
the
altitude
of
the
Sunne
15
degrees
high
,
And
the
same
euening
I
tooke
the
altitude
of
the
great
Starre
Arcturus
10
degrees
high
towards
the
West
)
Which
had
,
then
shall
you
prepare
your
Almicantifer
vnto
that
altitude
,
thus
:
In
the
Zenith
line
chosen
by
the
7.
Cap.
for
your
place
(
vz.
in
the
51
⅔
Zenith
line
for
vs
heere
about
Reading
)
seeke
out
among
his
Almicantare
rootes
the
number
of
that
Altitude
taken
,
(
vz.
in
the
morning
I
sought
15
for
the
☉
,
and
at
night
10
for
Arcturus
)
&
there
plant
the
Cursor
,
then
reckon
on
the
North
line
from
your
Horizontall
point
found
by
the
7
inwards
towards
the
centre
the
same
altitude
againe
(
vz.
from
the
Horizontall
point
of
our
latitude
,
being
the
51
⅔
deg.
of
the
North-line
counted
from
the
center
,
I
reckoned
inwards
for
the
☉
15
degrees
,
and
for
Arcturus
10
degrees
,
the
one
fell
out
at
36
⅔
degrees
from
the
center
,
the
other
at
41
⅔
)
and
thereto
,
set
the
pointer
of
the
Almicantifer
,
which
poynter
and
Cursor
so
set
,
I
call
the
Almicantifer
prepared
:
Then
leade
about
the
Almicantifer
,
which
must
also
leade
after
him
the
noone-line
,
vntill
the
pointer
come
to
touch
exactly
either
the
Apex
of
the
Sunnes
Carect
,
or
the
very
centre
of
the
Starre
by
which
soeuer
you
deale
,
and
this
I
call
the
applying
of
the
pointer
to
any
Planet
or
Starre
:
There
hold
the
Zenitfer
fast
,
and
slide
downe
the
Cursor
to
the
centre
,
applying
there
his
Fiduciall
line
labell-wise
to
the
Sunne
,
which
shall
shew
you
in
the
houre
circle
the
houre
desired
,
and
this
I
call
labelling
of
the
Sunne
to
the
houre
circle
:
Yet
vpon
these
condicions
,
that
if
you
deale
for
the
East
Hemispheare
,
that
is
to
say
,
if
your
altitude
taken
were
on
the
East
part
of
the
Meridian
,
vz.
betweene
the
North
and
South
Eastwards
(
as
for
the
☉
it
was
)
then
in
this
leading
about
shall
the
Almicantifer
play
leftwards
of
the
noone-line
towards
6
of
clocke
in
the
morning
of
the
houre
circle
which
I
call
the
East
Hemispheare
,
and
so
to
leade
the
noone-line
after
it
leftwards
,
but
if
your
altitude
taken
were
on
the
West
part
(
as
for
Arcturus
it
was
)
then
shall
the
Almicantifer
play
and
keepe
on
the
right
side
of
the
noone-line
towards
6
of
clocke
at
night
,
and
leade
him
about
rightwards
after
him
(
According
to
which
precept
,
the
said
2
of
October
in
the
morning
,
I
applied
the
Almicantifer
his
pointer
prepared
as
is
said
vnto
15
deg.
to
the
Apex
of
the
☉
(
placed
as
is
said
at
20
⅓
of
♎
)
in
the
East
Hemispheere
,
and
there
did
I
labell
to
the
Sunne
,
which
shewed
me
halfe
an
houre
past
8
in
the
morning
,
the
houre
desired
.
Likewise
at
night
I
applied
the
pointer
prepared
,
and
planted
for
10
degrees
vnto
Arcturus
in
the
West
Hemispheare
,
because
Arcturus
was
in
the
West
,
and
then
againe
I
labelled
to
the
☉
which
shewed
me
in
the
Houre
circle
halfe
an
houre
past
7
of
the
clocke
at
night
,
the
houre
desired
:
For
alwayes
(
Locus
Solis
ostendit
horam
.
)
And
I
dare
boldly
say
,
that
neuer
was
seene
before
this
more
facillitie
to
know
the
houre
by
the
Starres
,
by
any
other
Astrolabe
,
or
Instrument
whatsoeuer
.
Cap.
14.
¶
Another
more
easy
way
to
finde
the
houre
by
the
Starres
.
HAuing
your
Meridian
planted
about
your
dwelling
place
,
as
in
the
6
Cap.
is
taught
,
see
into
the
element
if
any
Starre
you
know
well
(
as
by
the
25
Cap.
you
shall
easily
know
hem
all
)
be
euen
therewith
either
on
the
South
or
North
part
.
And
vpon
that
Starre
sought
in
the
Celestiall
,
place
accordingly
the
North
line
or
noone
line
(
either
of
them
now
esteemed
from
the
Zenith
point
)
and
there
labell
to
the
☉
,
so
shall
the
houre
sought
shew
it selfe
in
the
houre
circle
vnder
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Labell
or
Almicantifer
now
vsed
Labell-wise
after
the
woonted
manner
,
this
needeth
no
example
.
If
you
haue
no
Meridian
perpendiculers
set
,
you
may
at
any
time
presently
set
them
with
two
stickes
by
the
Pole-Starre
it selfe
sufficient
for
this
purpose
.
I
my selfe
alwayes
kept
a
standing
marke
ready
set
in
such
sort
,
that
some
tree
,
chimney
top
,
or
gable
end
,
should
be
directly
South
from
the
same
.
If
no
Starre
be
in
the
South
or
North
,
it
is
not
hard
to
gesse
the
distaunce
of
the
neerest
you
see
,
and
place
your
noone
or
North
line
accordingly
,
especially
by
two
Starres
,
on
either
side
one
,
to
marke
what
part
of
their
distance
your
Meridian
cutteth
,
and
accordingly
to
place
the
noone
or
North
line
betweene
them
.
Cap.
15.
¶
Another
easy
way
by
the
☽
.
TAke
the
houre
which
the
shade
of
the
☽
giueth
on
any
Sunne-dyall
,
seeke
the
same
houre
in
the
houre
circle
,
and
labell
it
to
the
Moones
Carect
planted
by
the
3.
Cap.
and
then
holding
fast
the
Zenitfer
,
labell
to
the
Sunnes
Carect
,
which
shall
shew
in
the
houre
circle
the
houre
desired
.
Cap.
16.
¶
How
to
know
the
meridian
Altitude
of
the
Sunne
,
or
any
other
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
of
the
heauens
in
any
countrey
,
and
what
houre
of
the
day
or
night
any
of
them
shall
culminate
,
or
come
to
the
Meridian
of
that
place
.
THE
Carects
being
planted
by
the
3
Cap.
you
shall
but
applye
the
noone-line
to
the
Apex
or
Centre
of
the
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
desired
,
and
the
degrees
thereon
found
betweene
the
Verticall
point
and
it
taken
out
of
90
,
leaueth
the
Meridian
altitude
desired
,
whether
it
be
North
or
South
,
and
there
also
if
you
labell
to
the
Sunne
,
it
shall
shew
you
in
the
houre
circle
the
time
when
that
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
,
commeth
to
the
Meridian
.
(
For
example
,
the
noone-line
brought
to
the
Sunnes
chiefe
Apex
,
being
planted
by
the
3
cap.
at
263
min.
in
♓
,
his
place
for
the
5
of
March
1598.
you
shall
finde
him
by
the
degrees
of
the
noone-line
53
degrees
distaunt
from
our
Verticall
point
heere
at
Reading
therein
,
vz.
from
the
51
⅔
degr.
thereof
,
which
53
taken
out
of
90
,
leaueth
37
the
Meridian
altitude
.
In
like
manner
for
any
Starre
,
Admit
oculus
tauri
the
noone-line
applyed
to
his
middle
pricke
,
you
shall
finde
it
distaunt
from
our
Verticall
point
35
⅔
degr.
that
taken
out
of
90
,
leaueth
54
⅓
his
Meridian
altitude
,
As
if
you
make
tryall
by
obseruacion
,
as
in
the
8
Cap.
is
taught
,
you
shall
finde
it
so
.
And
if
you
there
labell
to
the
☉
,
you
shall
finde
it
to
cut
in
the
houre-circle
4
of
clocke
in
the
after
noone
,
and
almost
halfe
an
houre
past
,
which
is
the
time
that
oculus
tauri
shall
come
vnto
the
Meridian
the
sayd
6
of
March
1598.
But
when
you
worke
for
the
Sunne
as
before
,
he
onely
is
himselfe
the
pointer
of
houres
,
and
therefore
must
needes
be
in
the
Meridian
at
Noone
,
or
12
of
clocke
.
But
if
it
be
for
any
North
Starre
that
neuer
setteth
,
and
that
you
would
know
his
meridian
altitude
vnder
the
Pole
,
apply
the
North
line
thereto
,
and
the
degrees
thereof
betweene
it
and
the
Horizontall
point
is
your
desire
,
and
there
also
labell
to
the
Sunne
,
and
it
shall
shew
you
the
houre
.
Cap.
17.
¶
How
to
know
the
houre
of
Sunne-rising
and
setting
,
and
the
length
of
the
day
and
night
,
together
with
his
oblique
ascencion
,
and
his
difference
of
ascencion
any
day
in
the
yeare
.
YOur
day
and
yeare
proposed
(
Admit
the
said
8
day
of
Iune
this
yeare
1596
in
the
3
Cap.
mentioned
,
when
our
most
noble
Lords
lanched
from
Plimmouth
towardes
Spayne
)
and
the
Sunnes
Apex
placed
by
the
3
cap.
(
vnto
27
degrees
58
min.
of
♊
)
Then
shall
you
set
the
Cursor
vnto
the
outer
end
of
the
Zenith
line
of
your
countrey
,
(
vz.
vnto
the
0
almicantare
roote
of
the
51
Zenith
line
being
for
the
latitude
of
Plymouth
,
)
and
there
fastening
the
Cursor
apply
the
pointer
vnto
the
Horizontall
point
(
of
Plimouth
,
being
the
51
degree
of
the
North
line
)
and
this
I
call
preparing
of
the
Zenitfer
to
the
Horizon
.
Now
,
first
to
begin
for
the
Sunne-rising
,
being
thus
prepared
,
you
shall
according
to
the
precept
in
the
9
Cap.
let
the
Almicantifer
play
on
the
East
Hemicicle
,
and
there
apply
his
pointer
to
the
Sunnes
Apex
(
at
27
degr.
58
min.
in
♊
)
there
hold
fast
〈◊〉
Zenitfer
and
Labell
to
the
Sunne
,
so
shall
appeare
in
〈◊〉
●oure
circle
(
4
of
clock
in
the
morning
,
and
somwhat
lesse
)
the
time
of
the
Sunne-rising
for
your
(
8
of
Iune
1596
at
Plimouth
)
day
and
yeare
proposed
.
And
if
there
also
you
labell
to
the
East
point
or
6
of
clock
in
the
morning
of
the
houre
circle
,
it
shall
shew
you
in
the
limbe
of
the
Celestiall
(
56
degr.
20
min.
)
the
oblique
ascencion
of
the
Sunne
for
that
time
and
place
he
is
in
,
which
taken
out
of
the
right
ascencion
of
his
place
(
of
27
degr.
58
min.
of
♊
,
being
87
½
degr.
)
had
by
the
8
Cap.
there
shall
remaine
(
31
deg.
10
min.
)
the
difference
of
ascencion
.
In
the
very
like
manner
worke
for
the
Sunne-se●ting
,
by
letting
the
Almicantifer
to
play
on
the
West
Hemicicle
,
and
there
apply
the
pointer
againe
to
the
Sunnes
Apex
(
vz.
to
the
foresaid
27
degr.
58
min.
of
♊
)
and
there
labell
to
the
☉
,
so
shall
you
see
in
the
houre
circle
(
some
10
min.
after
8
of
clocke
at
night
)
the
houre
of
Sunne-set
:
and
the
space
of
houres
numbered
betweene
Sunne-rising
and
setting
(
being
16
houres
⅓
)
is
the
length
of
the
day
,
and
those
(
16
⅓
houres
)
taken
out
of
24
houres
,
leaueth
(
7
⅔
houres
)
the
length
of
the
night
.
Also
the
houre
of
Sunne
set
(
vz
8
⅙
doubled
any
day
,
maketh
(
16
⅓
houres
)
the
iust
length
of
the
day
as
before
.
And
heere
also
if
you
labell
to
the
West
point
of
the
houre
circle
,
it
shall
shew
you
in
the
Celestialls
limbe
(
118
deg.
30
mi.
)
the
oblique
descencion
(
in
the
said
51
latitude
)
As
for
the
difference
of
descencion
,
it
is
all
one
with
the
difference
of
ascencion
.
This
Chapter
is
most
easily
to
be
performed
by
the
particular
moouer
in
the
1
Cap.
mentioned
:
For
if
you
mooue
it
about
leftwards
(
vz.
from
West
towards
East
,
according
to
Copernicus
Hipothesis
,
and
contrary
to
all
other
Astrolabes
)
till
the
East
part
of
the
particular
Horizon
come
to
the
Sunne
,
the
Labell
layd
thereon
,
sheweth
the
houre
of
rising
,
and
continuing
that
moouing
till
the
Wester
part
of
the
Horizon
come
to
the
Sunne
,
the
Labell
there
applyed
,
sheweth
the
Sunne
setting
:
yea
,
and
more
then
that
,
the
Labell
there
at
both
places
sheweth
the
amplitude
of
the
Sunne
rising
and
setting
,
by
the
prospectiue
degrees
of
the
Horizon
.
Note
,
that
if
you
would
be
curious
,
you
should
at
Sunne
rising
apply
the
Labell
a
quarter
of
a
degree
short
,
and
for
the
Sunne
setting
a
quarter
of
a
degree
further
on
in
the-clipticke
,
then
the
Sunnes
Apex
is
planted
in
regard
of
the
Sunnes
diurnall
motion
,
being
euery
24
houres
almost
a
degree
,
for
that
the
Apex
is
set
but
iust
for
noone
,
the
reason
whereof
is
shewed
in
the
6.
Cap.
Note
also
,
that
for
the
rising
and
setting
of
Starres
,
and
the
other
Planets
,
they
are
to
be
done
by
the
particular
in
all
respects
as
for
the
Sunne
,
sauing
that
you
must
remember
semper
locus
solis
ostendit
horam
:
Also
,
the
getting
of
the
assencions
and
descencions
haue
all
one
working
with
the
generall
.
Cap.
18.
¶
To
know
the
houre
of
rising
or
setting
of
any
other
Starre
,
Planet
,
or
point
in
the
Heauens
,
and
their
diurnall
and
nocturnall
arches
,
and
their
oblique
assencions
and
difference
of
assencion
in
any
Countrey
.
IN
all
these
cases
where
we
intreate
of
the
houre
,
it
is
intended
that
the
Sunnes
place
is
set
by
the
3.
Cap.
(
admit
at
26
degr.
3
min.
in
Pisces
,
for
the
5
day
of
March
1598.
)
Now
to
knowe
the
time
of
rising
or
setting
of
any
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
proposed
(
admit
the
great
Starre
Arcturus
)
for
any
time
and
place
proposed
,
you
shall
prepare
the
Almicantifer
to
the
Horizon
proposed
in
all
respects
as
in
the
last
Cap.
you
did
(
vz.
the
Cursor
planted
vnto
the
outermost
end
of
the
51
⅔
Zenith
line
,
and
the
pointer
vnto
the
51
⅔
Horizontall
point
seruing
with
vs
heere
at
Reading
.
)
And
then
for
the
time
of
rising
,
you
must
let
the
Almicantifer
play
on
the
East
Hemicicle
,
and
there
apply
the
pointer
to
the
centre
of
(
Arcturus
)
the
Starre
or
point
proposed
,
and
there
holding
fast
the
Zenitfer
,
labell
to
the
Sunne
,
so
shall
you
finde
cut
in
the
houre
circle
(
about
20
min.
past
6
of
clocke
in
the
afternoone
)
the
houre
and
time
of
his
rising
.
And
there
also
if
you
labell
to
the
East
point
of
the
houre-circle
,
it
sheweth
in
the
limbe
of
the
Celestiall
(
280
⅓
degrees
)
the
oblique
ascencion
of
the
same
Starre
or
point
(
Arcturus
)
in
the
(
51
⅔
)
latitude
proposed
,
which
taken
out
of
the
right
ascencion
(
209
⅓
)
had
by
the
8
Cap.
leaueth
(
19
degrees
)
the
difference
.
Note
,
that
if
happily
you
thinke
your
houre
circle
with
the
smallest
to
direct
you
to
the
oblique
ascencion
exactly
when
you
lay
the
Labell
on
the
East
or
West
points
,
know
that
he
must
cut
the
like
part
of
the
Degree
where
he
lighteth
as
the
noone-line
or
North-line
do
in
the
degrees
where
they
are
.
Note
also
,
that
to
knowe
the
oblique
ascencion
,
is
as
much
to
say
,
as
to
know
what
d●gree
of
the
Aequinoctiall
doth
rise
with
any
Starre
or
Planet
on
any
oblique
Horizon
.
As
for
the
houre
of
setting
,
let
the
Almicantifer
prepared
as
before
,
play
on
the
West
Hemicicle
,
and
aply
the
pointer
there
againe
on
the
said
Starre
(
Arcturus
)
or
point
proposed
,
where
if
you
labell
to
the
Sunne
(
at
26
degrees
3
min.
in
♓
,
)
it
shall
shewe
you
in
the
houre-circle
(
20
min.
past
10
the
next
morning
)
the
time
of
his
setting
:
and
the
houres
reckoned
on
the
houre-circle
betweene
his
time
of
rising
and
setting
(
being
16
)
is
his
diurnall
arch
,
which
taken
out
of
24
,
leaueth
(
8
houres
)
his
nocturnall
arch
.
Cap.
19.
¶
How
to
set
perticular
degrees
on
the
Almicantifer
,
for
any
perticular
latitude
.
I
Do
not
stand
making
speciall
Chapters
of
the
vse
of
the
perticular
moouer
in
the
1
Cap.
mentioned
,
because
it
consisteth
but
of
the
very
same
Horizon
circle
and
12
houses
of
one
perticular
latitude
,
which
old
1
Stophlerus
,
and
our
old
english
Laureat
G.
Chaucer
,
haue
so
largely
and
plainely
written
of
:
withall
,
being
a
thing
most
commonly
in
vse
,
and
differing
in
nothing
,
but
that
they
according
to
the
auncient
Astronomers
,
appointed
the
Starry
Heauens
to
mooue
rightwards
from
East
towards
West
,
vppon
the
earth
or
fixed
Horizon
of
the
place
.
And
I
according
to
Copernicus
cause
the
earth
or
Horizon
to
moue
leftwards
from
West
towards
East
,
vppon
the
Starry
Firmament
fixed
:
In
so
much
,
that
if
in
this
my
Astrolabe
you
hold
still
that
perticular
moouer
with
one
hand
,
and
with
your
vnder
hand
turne
about
the
Celestiall
,
then
is
it
iumpe
Stophler
againe
.
In
which
motion
(
a
pretty
thing
to
note
)
one
that
standeth
by
shall
hardly
perceiue
any
other
but
that
the
Reete
mooueth
,
although
in
deede
you
turne
about
the
Mater
,
strongly
confirming
Copernicus
Argument
,
who
sayth
,
that
the
weakenesse
of
our
senses
do
imagine
the
Heauens
to
mooue
about
euery
24
houres
from
East
to
West
by
a
Primum
mobile
,
where
as
in
deede
they
haue
been
alwayes
fixed
,
and
it
is
the
earth
that
whirleth
about
euery
24
houres
from
West
to
East
,
of
his
owne
propper
nature
allotted
vnto
him
,
as
most
fit
for
the
receptacle
of
all
transitory
things
,
being
appointed
in
a
place
where
nothing
is
to
stay
him
from
his
continuall
moouing
:
but
of
those
things
I
haue
more
iust
occasion
to
intreate
of
in
my
Organum
Vranicum
very
shortly
to
come
foorth
.
But
now
if
the
sayd
particular
moouer
should
also
haue
his
perticular
Almicantares
like
the
Reete
of
my
Iewell
tediously
cut
out
,
they
would
much
obscure
this
faire
face
of
the
Celestiall
,
very
needlesse
:
because
the
perticular
Zenith-line
of
the
place
,
with
his
90
rootes
annexed
to
the
noone-line
for
the
Cursor
to
play
vppon
,
and
the
perticular
degrees
by
this
Cap.
prepared
on
the
Almicantifer
,
shall
serue
in
all
respects
as
well
or
rather
better
.
And
the
manner
of
preparing
them
is
in
a
manner
already
set
downe
in
the
13
Cap.
Yet
is
it
more
easily
to
be
done
by
a
perticular
,
whose
radyall
degrees
on
the
North
line
,
which
before
I
haue
tearmed
North
degrees
,
are
or
should
be
ready
numbered
from
the
Horizontall
point
,
towards
the
Verticall
point
,
ending
there
at
90
degrees
,
which
in
the
generall
can
not
be
suffered
.
Wherefore
keeping
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Almicantifer
euen
with
the
North
line
,
then
sliding
the
Cursor
from
roote
to
roote
of
the
90
rootes
of
your
perticular
Zenith
line
,
set
nickes
in
the
Almicantifer
at
euery
degree
,
from
degree
to
degree
of
the
90
North
degrees
,
numbered
from
the
Horizontall
point
,
towards
the
Verticall
point
,
correspondent
to
each
roote
as
they
passe
in
order
,
till
the
whole
90
particular
degrees
be
in
manner
as
in
the
13
Cap.
is
shewed
by
those
nicks
placed
on
the
Almicantifer
,
and
then
distinguish
them
by
tennes
,
and
set
numbers
vnto
them
accordingly
,
so
are
they
very
ready
for
diuers
speciall
purposes
in
one
latitude
,
and
if
neede
were
,
a
man
may
by
the
two
edges
on
both
faces
set
the
like
in
for
foure
latitudes
,
and
those
will
neere
be
sufficient
for
any
one
region
or
prouince
,
or
else
he
might
haue
it
made
with
some
chanell
to
receiue
a
slip
of
velome
or
paste-boorde
,
whereon
with
pen
and
inke
speedily
to
prepare
it
for
any
latitude
.
Cap.
20.
¶
How
to
know
the
amplitude
of
the
rising
or
setting
of
the
Sunne
or
Starres
.
THE
true
East
and
West
points
of
any
Horizon
are
the
Intersections
of
the
Equinoctiall
therewith
:
and
that
is
the
cause
why
in
describing
the
generall
Horizons
,
they
make
them
all
to
meete
at
two
points
which
are
those
,
and
for
that
cause
it
is
manifest
,
that
there
can
no
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
of
the
heauens
,
rise
or
set
directly
in
the
true
East
or
West
points
of
any
Horizon
,
but
only
such
as
are
scituate
for
the
time
being
in
the
Aeq●inoctiall
circle
.
Wherefore
those
that
are
North
from
the
Equinoctiall
,
must
needes
rise
and
set
Northwards
from
the
true
East
and
West
points
,
and
those
that
are
Southwards
▪
rise
and
set
Southwards
,
and
that
more
or
lesse
,
according
to
their
distaunce
,
and
the
obliquitie
of
the
Horizon
proposed
.
And
the
degrees
of
the
Horizon
circle
betweene
the
true
East
and
West
points
,
and
their
rising
and
setting
,
are
called
the
amplitude
of
rising
and
setting
,
which
in
the
perticular
moouer
are
immediately
seene
by
the
degrees
of
the
Horizon
circle
,
as
in
the
17
Cap
is
sayd
:
but
by
the
generall
it
asketh
a
little
paines
in
this
manner
.
Get
the
oblique
ascencion
of
the
Sunne
,
Starre
,
or
point
proposed
for
the
time
and
place
▪
by
the
17
or
18
Cap.
(
which
for
the
Sunne
was
in
the
Horizon
of
Plymouth
the
day
of
the
prosperous
setting
foorth
of
our
saide
noble
Lords
,
founde
in
the
17
Cap.
56
degrees
20
minutes
of
the
Celestialls
limbe
,
)
and
thereto
apply
the
noone-line
,
and
there
hold
the
Zenithfer
fixed
:
where
it
you
haue
the
Almicantif●r
by
the
last
Cap
prepared
for
the
first
latitude
,
vz.
vnto
the
Zenith
line
,
neerest
vnto
the
noone-line
,
whose
Horizontall
point
is
in
the
centre
of
the
Astrolabe
,
and
then
running
the
Cursor
downe
by
the
rootes
of
the
same
first
Zenith
line
,
keeping
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Almicantifer
still
on
the
Sunne
,
Starre
,
or
point
proposed
,
vntill
the
Cursor
among
the
rootes
,
and
the
☉
or
Starre
among
the
prepared
degrees
doe
cut
like
number
,
for
then
is
the
complement
thereof
,
the
degrees
of
the
amplitude
sought
.
But
if
your
Almicantifer
be
not
prepared
,
th●n
must
you
prepare
him
and
his
pointer
as
in
the
13
Cap.
is
taught
,
first
to
one
degree
of
altitude
,
then
to
another
,
making
still
proffers
to
the
☉
or
Starre
,
till
the
pointer
touch
vppon
it
,
(
which
will
fall
out
at
41
degrees
of
that
first
Zenith
line
and
latitude
)
and
the
degrees
so
found
,
taken
out
of
90
,
leaueth
(
49
degrees
)
the
amplitude
(
of
the
☉
)
sought
.
Cap.
21.
¶
To
know
what
Starres
do
neuer
rise
or
set
in
any
latitude
,
and
which
do
once
a
day
touch
the
Zenith
point
,
or
the
Horizontall
point
.
THis
matter
is
most
easy
,
(
your
Verticall
point
and
Horizontall
point
chosen
by
the
10
Cap.
)
to
be
done
by
the
bare
moouing
about
of
the
Zenitfer
,
for
in
that
motion
,
such
Starres
(
as
the
tayle
of
Vrsa
maior
,
and
the
head
of
Perseus
,
and
such
like
)
as
touch
the
Verticall
point
be
sure
(
in
our
51
⅔
latit
.
heere
at
Reading
)
do
come
once
in
24
houres
to
the
Zenith
of
that
place
:
And
such
as
do
not
reach
vnto
the
(
51
⅔
)
Horizontall
point
,
(
as
all
Vrsa
maior
but
2
Starres
Vrsa
minor
,
Cassiopeia
,
Cepheus
&c
)
do
n●uer
et
▪
And
such
as
touch
vppon
the
Horizontall
point
,
(
as
Caput
Me●●●se
lucida
lyre
,
the
ring
of
Andromedaes
cheine
&c.
)
do
once
in
24
houres
touch
vppon
the
Horizon
of
the
(
51
⅔
)
latitude
proposed
,
yet
do
not
set
vnder
it
.
By
the
particular
moouer
,
these
things
are
most
plainely
perceiued
,
and
reddily
done
by
the
moouing
of
the
Horizon
circle
about
.
Cap.
22.
¶
To
know
any
day
and
houre
what
Starres
or
points
in
the
Heauens
are
in
or
neere
the
Meridian
,
or
do
rise
or
set
in
any
Latitude
.
THis
matter
is
as
easy
as
the
last
.
Labell
the
Sunne
(
admit
placed
at
20
degrees
10
min.
in
♎
for
the
2.
of
October
1596
)
to
any
houre
in
the
houre
circle
(
admit
to
8
of
clock
at
night
)
and
so
shall
the
noone-line
of
the
Zenitfer
shew
(
the
two
Starres
,
called
Caude
Capricorni
,
and
Lucida
Hidri
,
but
a
little
past
,
&c.
)
such
Starres
as
are
the
same
instant
in
the
South
,
and
the
12
degree
of
Aquarius
in
the
medium
Celi
vnder
the
noone-line
.
And
there
holding
fast
the
Zenitfer
,
being
prepared
vnto
the
Horizon
(
51
⅔
heere
at
Reading
)
proposed
,
leade
the
Almicantifer
about
the
East
Hemispheare
,
and
looke
what
Starres
(
as
part
of
Perseus
,
one
of
the
heads
of
♊
,
the
Bulles
head
,
the
sinne
of
the
Whale
,
&c.
)
you
shall
finde
the
pointer
to
touch
vppon
:
the
same
assuredly
,
do
euen
that
moment
emerge
and
rise
on
the
Horizon
.
That
done
,
the
Zenitfer
still
remayning
and
prepared
to
the
Horison
as
before
,
leade
the
Almicantifer
about
the
West
Hemispheare
,
and
you
shall
finde
the
pointer
to
touch
vppon
such
Starres
(
vz.
one
in
the
arme
pit
,
another
in
the
bowe
of
♐
,
&c.
)
as
are
euen
then
ready
to
set
and
go
downe
vnder
the
Horizon
.
This
is
also
most
easy
by
the
Horizon
circle
of
the
particular
,
which
being
but
set
to
the
houre
,
the
Starres
rising
appeare
in
the
East
Hemispheare
,
and
those
setting
:
in
the
West
and
those
in
the
Meridian
:
vnder
the
noone-line
.
Cap.
23.
¶
How
to
know
the
houre
distance
of
any
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
of
the
Heauens
from
the
Meridian
,
any
day
and
yeare
proposed
,
and
in
any
latitude
.
THat
is
to
say
,
how
many
houres
any
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
point
(
admit
oculus
Tauri
)
not
being
in
the
South
at
any
time
assigned
,
(
admit
at
10
of
clocke
at
night
the
5
of
March
1598.
)
will
be
before
he
come
to
the
Meridian
of
any
place
(
admit
our
Meridian
heere
at
Reading
in
the
51
⅔
latitude
)
proposed
,
or
if
he
be
past
,
how
many
houres
he
is
past
:
You
shall
labell
the
houre
giuen
in
the
houre-circle
(
vz.
10
of
clocke
at
night
)
to
the
☉
planted
as
in
the
3
Cap.
(
at
26
degr.
3
min.
of
♓
)
there
holde
fast
the
Zenitfer
,
and
labell
to
your
Starre
(
oculus
Tauri
)
or
point
proposed
,
so
doth
the
labell
shew
in
the
houre-circle
(
fiue
houres
⅔
almost
Westwards
,
and
therefore
past
the
Meridian
)
the
houre
and
part
that
the
Starre
or
point
is
distant
,
which
if
it
be
on
the
East
part
,
then
is
not
that
Starre
or
point
come
to
the
Meridian
,
if
Westwards
(
as
heere
it
was
)
then
is
he
past
the
Meridian
(
5
⅔
houres
)
so
many
houres
.
Cap.
24.
¶
How
to
know
the
height
of
the
Sunne
,
or
of
any
other
Planet
or
Starre
,
for
any
houre
of
the
day
any
yeare
in
any
latitude
.
SEeke
your
houre
proposed
(
admit
10
of
clock
in
the
morning
the
2
of
Octob.
1596
in
our
51
⅔
lati
.
)
in
the
houre-circle
,
&
labell
it
to
the
Suns
carect
(
at
20
d.
10
mi.
in
♎
)
there
hold
the
Zenitfer
fast
.
Now
if
the
particular
degrees
be
planted
on
the
Almicantifer
,
as
in
the
19
Cap.
is
taught
,
you
shall
,
(
keeping
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Almicantifer
on
the
Starre
or
Sonnes
Apex
,
)
neede
but
to
slide
the
Cursor
too
and
fro
on
the
Zenith
line
of
the
(
51
⅔
)
latitude
proposed
,
vntill
the
Cursor
among
the
rootes
of
that
(
51
⅔
)
Z●nith-line
,
and
the
Sunnes
Apex
or
centre
of
the
Starre
(
admit
of
oculus
♉
)
among
the
particular
degrees
of
the
Almicantifer
,
do
cut
like
number
,
(
which
you
shall
finde
for
the
☉
to
be
at
the
25
roote
,
and
25
particular
degrees
,
and
for
oculus
tauri
at
the
3
½
roote
,
and
3
½
particular
degrees
,
)
for
those
shall
be
the
degrees
of
the
Sunne
or
Starres
altitude
sought
.
But
if
your
Almicantifer
haue
not
the
particular
degrees
,
then
must
you
as
in
the
13
Cap.
is
taught
,
prepare
it
to
some
degree
at
a
venture
,
and
make
a
proffer
to
the
Sunne
or
Starre
,
to
see
if
the
pointer
will
touch
it
:
if
it
do
not
,
prepare
it
againe
and
againe
if
neede
be
,
further
off
,
or
neerer
,
as
the
cause
requireth
,
till
it
do
hit
,
as
in
the
20
Cap.
you
did
,
which
with
a
very
little
practise
will
be
as
easy
as
the
particular
.
This
and
the
20
are
the
onely
two
hardest
in
the
booke
,
and
therefore
spare
not
so
little
paines
as
they
require
.
Cap.
25.
¶
How
you
shall
most
easily
learne
to
know
all
the
Constellations
and
Starres
in
the
element
it selfe
.
EVen
as
a
lofe
of
dowe
or
paste
,
after
it
is
new
moulden
round
and
copped
,
if
you
then
put
it
into
a
presse
,
will
become
a
flat
cake
:
Euen
such
a
cake
made
of
the
round
Spheare
or
Globe
pressed
,
is
the
Celestiall
of
our
new
Astrolabe
,
which
I
would
haue
you
now
for
this
purpose
imagine
to
be
a
lofe
or
round
Globe
againe
:
and
that
euery
of
his
circles
had
their
due
conuexities
in
such
sort
,
that
a
little
pretty
fellowe
like
Tom
Thumbe
might
easily
seate
himselfe
vnder
them
as
vnder
a
Canapy
in
the
very
centre
of
the
concauity
,
with
this
conceite
,
if
at
any
houre
of
any
night
giuen
(
admit
at
10
of
clocke
at
night
the
saide
5
of
March
1598
)
you
hauing
first
placed
that
houre
of
the
houre-circle
vnto
the
Sunnes
Carect
placed
by
the
3
Cap.
(
vnto
26
degr.
3
min.
of
♓
,
)
there
fastning
the
Zenithfer
:
And
then
going
abroade
,
by
help
of
your
Meridian
set
,
as
in
the
9
Cap.
do
place
your
Astrolabe
flat
on
some
stoole
,
plaine
leuell
with
the
Horizon
,
with
his
noone-line
directed
towards
the
South
,
euen
with
the
saide
Meridian
line
,
and
the
North
line
towardes
the
North.
Then
with
a
priuy
skonce
and
candle
,
one
while
viewing
your
Astrolabe
,
another
while
hiding
the
light
,
and
viewing
the
element
,
you
shall
soone
perceiue
all
the
Starres
of
any
constellacion
in
the
heauens
which
are
then
aboue
your
Horizon
,
in
the
like
proportion
one
from
another
,
and
differing
in
their
magnitudes
,
as
in
the
Celestiall
they
are
described
:
in
so
much
,
that
your
little
pretty
fellow
sitting
in
the
centre
vnder
this
conceited
canapy
of
Starres
and
images
,
if
it
were
transparent
as
glasse
or
crystall
,
should
there
plainely
see
the
Starres
in
the
element
,
each
answering
his
match
in
this
canapy
,
by
the
visuall
lines
from
his
eye
,
especially
if
the
noone-line
be
eleuated
according
to
the
equinoctial
height
,
or
latitudes
complement
,
because
the
proiectment
is
polare
.
But
if
this
do
not
satisfye
you
sufficiently
,
then
is
best
for
you
hauing
placed
your
Zenitfer
as
before
by
the
houre
proposed
,
to
see
by
the
22
Cap.
what
Starres
are
vnder
or
neere
the
noone-line
,
and
of
which
magnitude
they
are
,
(
you
shall
finde
at
10
of
clocke
the
5
of
March
1598
the
great
Starre
of
the
first
magnit
.
in
the
brest
of
the
Lyon
,
called
Cor
Leonis
,
directly
vnder
it
,
and
the
bright
Starre
of
Hydra
of
the
2
magnitude
not
much
past
)
and
by
the
16
Cap.
learne
their
meridian
altitude
(
which
for
Cor
Leonis
,
you
shall
by
the
16
Cap.
finde
52
degrees
,
and
for
lucida
hidri
33
degrees
,
)
which
had
,
go
foorth
with
an
Astrolabe
or
Quadrant
with
his
fightes
set
to
that
altitude
directly
towards
the
South
,
and
you
shall
wellneere
finde
your
Starres
desired
euen
with
your
sight
holes
,
and
you
be
not
too
long
about
it
.
Also
at
any
time
you
may
lay
the
noone-line
to
any
Starre
(
admit
Arcturus
)
you
desire
to
know
,
and
then
labell
to
any
houre
of
the
night
proposed
,
(
admit
10
of
clocke
)
then
marke
what
degree
of
the
clipticke
the
labell
there
cutteth
,
(
you
shall
finde
1
degr.
30
min.
in
♊
)
and
seeke
by
the
5
Cap.
what
moneth
and
day
thereof
that
the
Sunne
commeth
to
that
degree
,
(
you
shall
finde
on
the
12
day
of
May
anno
1598
)
for
on
that
day
be
sure
to
finde
that
Starre
in
the
South
at
10
of
clock
at
night
,
where
you
may
make
triall
of
his
Meridian
altitude
as
before
.
And
hauing
thus
or
any
other
way
attained
the
perfect
knowledge
of
some
fewe
,
you
shall
easily
by
them
descrye
the
rest
by
their
scituation
vnto
them
,
and
imagined
distaunces
to
others
,
some
being
in
streight
lines
from
two
other
,
some
making
a
triangular
,
some
a
quadrangular
forme
of
sundry
shapes
:
And
this
shall
suffice
an
ingenious
conceit
in
a
fewe
nightes
to
learne
to
know
most
of
the
constellacions
and
their
Starres
,
who
shall
the
whiles
finde
the
time
spent
in
heauenly
pleasure
and
delightes
.
Cap.
26.
¶
Of
the
4
Cardines
,
and
the
sundry
rising
and
setting
of
the
fixed
Starres
with
the
Planets
.
THE
Meridian
and
Horizon
of
euery
place
do
alwayes
crosse
each
other
in
halfe
on
the
North
and
South
points
of
the
same
Horizon
:
which
crossing
,
maketh
of
those
two
circles
4
semicircles
,
which
are
called
the
4
Cardines
.
Vnto
either
of
which
when
any
Planet
commeth
,
especially
if
he
be
accompanyed
or
strongly
aspected
with
some
other
forcible
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
constellacion
,
he
worketh
speciall
effects
,
whether
it
be
in
natiuities
or
other
causes
,
especially
at
any
such
time
,
looke
assuredly
for
some
present
alteracion
of
the
weather
in
that
Horizon
,
because
there
they
do
strongly
affect
and
aspect
the
ascendent
Horizon
and
Climat
,
either
by
coniunction
,
opposition
,
or
quartile
,
which
are
the
strongest
:
the
other
,
as
the
△
and
⚹
,
are
counted
of
lesse
force
.
And
whosoeuer
will
take
vpon
him
to
iudge
of
Aspects
or
Eclipses
,
if
he
haue
not
an
eye
whether
they
aspect
the
Climat
,
or
to
iudge
of
the
weather
,
and
not
specially
regard
the
effects
of
the
fixed
Starres
with
the
Planets
,
shall
finde
it
to
prooue
but
lost
labour
,
and
happily
be
counted
a
common
lyar
,
as
some
of
our
vnskilfull
Prognosticators
are
,
and
the
rest
little
better
thought
of
,
because
of
their
negligence
or
ignorance
.
But
to
come
to
my
purpose
againe
,
you
shall
vnderstand
,
that
when
any
Starre
riseth
together
with
any
Planet
on
the
Horizon
(
if
with
the
☉
,
then
is
it
called
the
Cosmicall
rising
and
if
setting
at
Sunne
rising
the
Cosmicall
setting
,
if
rising
the
Sunne
setting
,
the
Acronicall
rising
,
if
setting
with
the
☉
,
the
Acronicall
setting
.
)
The
Cosmicall
rising
is
easily
knowne
by
applying
the
Almicantifer
prepared
to
the
Horizon
vnto
any
Planet
in
the
East
Hemicicle
:
there
hold
fast
the
Zenitfer
,
and
play
about
the
Almicantifer
,
and
looke
what
Starres
the
pointer
toucheth
on
in
the
East
Hemicicle
,
be
sure
those
do
rise
at
the
same
time
Cosmically
with
that
Planet
,
and
those
he
toucheth
on
in
the
West
Hemicicle
,
do
then
Cosmically
set
with
the
same
Planet
,
then
rising
.
Likewise
,
if
you
put
ouer
the
Almicantifer
so
prepared
,
causing
the
Planet
to
lye
in
the
East
Hemicicle
,
applying
the
pointer
thereto
,
and
there
holding
fast
the
Zenitfer
,
do
leade
the
Almicantifer
about
,
then
be
sure
that
such
Starres
as
the
pointer
lighteth
on
in
the
East
Hemicicle
,
shall
rise
acronically
with
that
Planet
setting
,
and
those
in
the
West
Hemicicle
,
shall
set
acronically
together
with
the
Planet
setting
:
and
what
time
of
the
yeare
any
of
these
shall
happen
,
is
easily
conceiued
by
that
hath
been
said
in
the
last
Cap.
and
elsewhere
:
For
vnto
the
Starre
proposed
,
if
you
apply
the
pointer
prepared
to
the
Horizon
,
&
there
holding
the
Zenithfer
,
do
remooue
the
Almicantifer
till
the
pointer
touch
or
cut
the
Clipticke
either
in
the
East
or
West
Hemicicle
.
Then
by
the
Ephemer
.
or
my
Vranicum
you
may
easily
know
when
&
what
day
any
Planet
shal
come
vnto
those
points
of
the-cliptick
so
cut
,
and
the
degree
of
the
☉
for
that
day
also
labelled
,
sheweth
there
in
the
houre-circle
the
houre
of
the
day
(
the
Zenitfer
being
neuer
stirred
all
the
while
)
when
any
such
rising
or
setting
shall
happen
.
For
example
,
this
yeare
1596
some
5
or
6
dayes
together
before
the
end
of
September
,
after
long
sitting
all
day
writing
this
present
booke
,
I
was
in
the
euenings
hindred
of
my
recreating
walks
by
sodaine
rising
of
the
winde
with
showres
of
raine
,
though
the
dayes
were
reasonable
faire
,
I
therefore
sought
this
my
new
Astrolabe
,
and
found
the
Pleiades
or
7
Starres
to
rise
in
the
euenings
cosmically
with
Iupiter
,
being
retrograde
all
the
while
,
♀
also
being
then
retrograde
,
for
retrogradacion
causeth
rayne
,
especially
in
☿
without
all
fayle
more
or
lesse
as
he
shall
be
affected
or
aspected
.
Also
the
2
of
October
1596
I
was
sodeinly
ouertaken
riding
from
Reading
to
my
poore
house
at
Swallowfeild
at
euen
,
with
a
most
stormy
rayne
that
continued
an
houre
or
two
after
very
extreame
,
it
made
me
looke
my
Astrolabe
againe
,
where
I
found
spica
virguis
the
Sunne
♂
and
☿
had
set
all
together
acronically
within
one
halfe
houre
or
lesse
that
this
storme
began
,
and
then
an
houre
after
that
Iupiter
was
to
rise
as
before
cosmically
with
the
Pleyades
.
Now
I
leaue
it
to
our
sufficient
Prognosticators
to
iudge
whether
these
might
be
efficient
causes
sufficient
or
no
,
and
do
commend
this
my
Astrolabe
vnto
them
as
a
most
needfull
thing
for
them
,
wishing
them
to
haue
a
speciall
regard
of
the
rising
,
setting
,
and
culminating
of
the
fixed
Starres
.
The
common
countreyman
seeing
any
day
inclined
to
moysture
,
can
say
,
that
it
will
surely
rayne
when
the
Sunne
and
the
winde
come
together
,
neither
will
it
indeede
rayne
till
then
for
the
most
part
,
how
likely
so
euer
.
And
wherefore
then
should
not
we
beleeue
the
learned
,
that
affirme
the
rising
of
Orion
,
Arcturus
,
Corona
,
&c.
to
prouoke
tempestious
weather
,
the
Kid
and
Goate
windes
,
the
Hiades
,
Pleiades
and
Succule
rayne
,
and
especially
happening
with
any
forcible
Planet
or
strong
aspect
,
the
more
violent
.
Were
it
not
for
consuming
the
time
,
I
could
recite
examples
of
all
these
and
diuers
other
that
I
haue
vpon
like
occasions
noted
to
my selfe
,
but
dare
presume
no
further
,
least
I
should
be
billed
amongst
the
common
liers
,
as
others
are
happily
causelesse
:
for
no
doubt
the
Almighty
hath
the
raigne
in
his
hand
,
to
alter
all
at
his
pleasure
when
they
haue
all
done
their
best
.
Yet
that
which
is
most
to
be
condemned
in
them
is
,
that
they
agree
seldome
in
one
coniecture
,
which
must
needes
bewray
shamefull
ignorance
in
some
of
them
at
the
least
.
Cap.
27.
¶
Of
the
12
houses
,
and
setting
the
Figure
.
LEarned
men
considering
the
Sunne
not
only
at
his
comming
vnto
the
4
chiefe
points
of
the-clipticke
,
vz.
the
two
Equinoctiall
and
the
two
Solstitiall
points
,
to
cause
the
Spring
,
Autumne
,
Sommer
and
Winter
,
but
also
that
in
euery
other
of
the
12
Signes
he
maketh
some
alteration
of
the
yeare
and
seasons
.
Euen
so
,
finding
such
speciall
effects
to
happen
by
the
comming
of
the
Planets
vnto
the
4
Cardines
,
either
with
the
fixed
Starres
or
without
,
as
in
the
last
Cap.
is
touched
,
they
did
imagine
that
the
Planets
and
Starres
might
haue
also
some
forces
and
effects
in
other
meane
places
betweene
:
and
therefore
tooke
vpon
them
to
adde
8
semicircles
more
vnto
the
4
Cardines
,
crossing
with
them
at
the
two
meridian
Horizontall
points
,
making
vp
the
number
of
12
,
which
they
call
the
12
houses
.
Those
on
the
particular
moouer
are
ready
drawne
,
so
that
applying
but
the
houre
in
the
moouers
limbe
to
the
Sunne
,
your
Figure
is
set
immediately
and
most
excellently
by
this
Astrolabe
,
fully
fraught
with
all
his
needfull
tackling
,
his
Lords
,
termes
,
faces
,
triplicities
,
aspects
,
Planets
and
Starres
in
their
places
,
natures
of
the
12
houses
,
and
of
the
12
Signes
,
the
gradus
masculini
,
feminini
,
lucidi
,
tenebrofi
,
vacui
,
fumosi
,
&c.
and
what
not
?
appertaining
to
the
Iudiciary
arte
,
as
if
you
reade
Alkabitius
,
Claud.
Dariotus
which
is
englished
,
Gwydo
Bonatus
,
and
others
their
introductions
to
that
arte
,
comparing
the
2
Cap.
therewithall
,
you
will
easily
conceiue
.
But
to
finde
these
12
houses
in
any
countrey
(
admit
heere
at
Reading
)
by
the
generall
for
any
day
and
yeare
proposed
,
(
admit
at
10
of
clocke
the
5
day
of
March
1598
)
you
shall
labell
the
houre
proposed
(
vz.
10
of
the
clocke
)
sought
in
the
houre
circle
vnto
the
Sunne
,
placed
by
the
4.
Cap.
(
at
25
degrees
3.
min.
in
♓
)
there
doth
the
noone-line
shew
you
(
22
degr.
30
min.
of
♒
)
the
degree
of
the-clipticke
,
beginning
the
10
house
and
the
North
line
(
22
degr.
30
min.
in
♌
)
the
degree
beginning
the
4
house
,
where
also
(
holding
fast
the
Zenitfer
)
play
the
Almicantifer
prepared
to
the
(
51
⅔
)
Horizon
,
on
both
sides
of
the
noone-line
,
so
shall
the
pointer
cut
the
clipticke
in
the
East
Hemicicle
at
(
28
degr.
30
min.
in
♊
)
his
degree
beginning
the
first
house
commonly
called
the
ascendent
or
Horoscope
,
and
in
the
West
Hemicicle
at
(
28
degr.
30
min.
in
♐
)
the
descendent
or
degree
beginning
the
7
house
,
so
haue
you
the
4
Cardines
,
Angles
,
or
principall
houses
of
any
figure
in
a
manner
as
ready
,
as
by
the
particular
moouer
,
which
(
hauing
as
the
common
manner
is
,
drawne
your
Scheame
or
Figure
for
the
12
houses
)
you
shall
plant
therein
accordingly
.
astrological diagram
Fig:
Celi
5
:
Martij
Hor:
10
1598
Note
,
that
if
in
playing
about
the
Almicantifer
you
chance
to
meete
with
any
notable
fixed
Starre
any
thing
neere
,
it
shall
not
do
amisse
to
set
him
also
in
your
figure
.
Also
I
am
to
note
vnto
you
,
that
there
are
two
things
that
fall
out
vnluckily
in
this
practise
,
which
you
shall
thus
salue
.
The
first
is
,
that
the
breadth
of
the
Zenitfer
hideth
from
the
pointer
the
Horizon
point
set
at
the
Apex
in
the
East
Hemicicle
.
This
is
salued
two
wayes
:
the
one
is
,
when
the
Almicantifer
is
prepared
to
set
the
Cursor
at
so
many
degrees
of
the
North
line
.
as
he
is
at
in
the
Noone
line
,
and
so
will
the
East
and
West
points
of
the
houre-circle
change
their
places
for
the
time
:
The
other
way
generall
to
all
foure
remooues
of
the
Zenithfer
.
For
so
soone
as
you
had
gotten
the
4
Cardines
,
if
you
had
made
in
the
Celestialls
limbe
on
each
side
of
the
noone-line
two
markes
,
the
one
30
the
other
60
degrees
distant
from
it
,
that
shall
serue
as
well
and
in
stead
of
the
foure
times
,
applying
of
the
pointer
to
the
Horizon
point
before
vsed
,
as
if
you
trye
both
wayes
you
shall
finde
,
and
produce
one
truth
.
And
whereas
for
diuers
latitudes
,
some
of
the
domifying
rootes
do
go
out
of
the
Zenitfer
,
those
may
easily
be
supplyed
with
help
of
a
threed
and
pearle
added
to
the
pointer
,
or
with
helpe
of
a
paire
of
compasses
thus
:
First
,
cast
away
45
out
of
your
radiall
number
shewed
by
the
slope
line
(
vz.
out
of
the
57
⅔
casting
45
,
there
remaineth
12
⅔
)
and
set
the
Cursor
vnto
twise
so
many
of
the
domifying
rootes
of
the
noonelines
scale
as
the
remaine
commeth
vnto
,
(
vz.
vnto
the
25
⅔
domifying
roote
)
and
there
apply
the
pointer
vnto
the
like
number
of
the
domifying
radiall
degrees
of
the
North
line
(
vz.
vnto
25
⅓
degr.
reckoned
on
the
North
line
from
the
equinoctials
intersection
towards
the
centre
)
and
then
the
Cursor
remayning
,
do
apply
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Almicantifer
euen
with
the
fiduciall
noone-line
of
the
Zenitfer
outwards
,
there
doth
the
pointers
Apex
shew
the
true
place
of
the
roote
wanting
,
where
if
you
pitch
one
foote
of
your
compasse
,
or
fasten
a
threed
,
and
with
the
other
or
with
the
pearle
extended
to
the
domifying
radyall
degree
of
the
slope
line
,
(
vz.
vnto
the
57
⅔
radiall
domifying
degree
,
)
offer
to
describe
a
circle
,
it
shall
cut
the-clipticke
as
before
the
pointer
did
at
22
degrees
of
♓
and
of
♍
,
so
the
noone-line
stand
at
his
due
place
as
before
,
vz.
at
30
or
60
degrees
of
the
Celestialls
limbe
from
the
first
constitution
.
Cap.
28.
¶
Of
the
aspects
of
the
Planets
,
and
how
to
finde
them
.
THere
are
in
Astronomy
three
chiefe
cardinall
aspects
(
as
I
may
tearme
them
)
vz.
the
Coniunction
marked
thus
☌
,
and
is
,
when
as
two
Planets
meete
in
one
degree
and
minute
of
longitude
.
The
Opposition
marked
thus
☍
,
when
as
they
are
iust
sixe
signes
in
sunder
.
The
Quartile
marked
thus
□
,
when
as
they
are
three
signes
distant
.
Also
,
there
are
two
other
of
lesse
force
,
vz.
the
Trine
marked
thus
△
,
and
is
at
foure
signes
distaunce
.
And
the
Sextile
marked
thus
⚹
,
at
two
signes
distaunce
.
Which
aspects
are
easily
descryed
euen
by
the
very
view
on
this
Astrolabe
,
when
as
the
Planets
are
thereon
planted
by
the
4
Cap.
for
who
can
not
espye
quickly
when
any
Planet
is
coniunct
,
or
2
,
3
,
4
,
or
6
signes
off
from
any
other
,
or
from
any
notable
fixed
Starre
.
And
yet
for
your
better
vnderstanding
,
I
haue
from
the
beginning
of
♑
drawne
the
radiall
lines
of
each
aspect
,
and
set
the
Carecters
on
them
:
But
now
Alkabitius
Bonatus
,
and
Dariottus
will
tell
you
,
that
the
Tryne
and
Sextile
are
good
,
the
□
and
☍
bad
,
the
coniunction
of
good
Planets
good
,
of
euill
Planets
bad
,
and
that
the
coniunction
and
☍
may
be
allowed
so
long
as
they
are
within
one
degree
of
another
,
and
the
△
□
and
⚹
when
they
come
one
within
daunger
of
anothers
beames
,
which
for
♄
or
♃
is
at
9
degrees
before
and
behinde
for
♂
at
8
degrees
,
♀
and
☿
at
seuen
,
the
☽
at
12
,
the
☉
15
degrees
,
and
so
farre
off
their
application
and
separation
begnneth
and
endeth
,
&c.
Also
Io.
Stophlerus
noteth
in
this
place
,
propos
.
55.
that
though
a
Planet
might
haue
10
degr.
of
latitude
,
yet
could
it
not
make
30
min.
difference
in
the
aspect
,
and
that
only
in
the
⚹
or
△
and
not
to
be
regarded
.
Also
aspects
are
said
to
be
dexter
aspects
,
when
the
beames
proiect
in
sequens
of
the-clipticke
,
and
Sinister
when
in
precedens
.
Cap.
29.
¶
A
new
deuise
of
the
Author
to
get
the
Planetary
houres
in
all
latitudes
,
and
of
their
Lords
regnant
.
THose
houres
which
in
these
dayes
we
call
Planetary
houres
,
for
that
Astronomers
haue
held
opinion
the
Planets
to
haue
their
seuerall
dominions
in
euery
of
them
,
haue
beene
sometime
called
Horae
inequales
,
and
Horae
temporariae
.
Their
nature
is
to
diuide
euery
naturall
day
betweene
Sunne-rising
and
setting
into
12
equall
partes
,
and
euery
naturall
night
into
other
12.
But
because
in
all
oblique
Horizons
the
dayes
and
nightes
lengthen
and
shorten
with
the
Sommer
and
Winter
,
therefore
these
houres
growing
great
and
lesse
according
to
the
time
and
latitude
,
are
called
Inequales
and
Temporariae
,
they
are
numbered
in
the
day
time
from
Sunne-rising
,
ending
at
Sunne-set
with
12
,
and
there
the
houres
of
the
night
beginning
,
do
end
the
next
morrow
at
Sunne-rising
with
12.
Th●se
houres
are
most
easily
had
by
a
speciall
Instrument
called
Horarium
Planetarium
,
which
I
my selfe
haue
newly
deuised
,
generall
to
all
Horizons
,
which
was
neuer
done
before
me
that
I
haue
seene
,
and
placed
it
at
the
top
of
the
Celestiall
,
comprehended
in
the
Sextans
of
a
circle
,
whose
arche
containeth
the
houres
of
Sunne-rising
and
setting
,
and
within
,
it
is
filled
with
a
number
of
streight
lines
,
all
parallell
to
the
base
of
the
Sextans
,
representing
the
common
,
equall
,
and
vsuall
houres
either
of
day
or
night
,
which
are
numbered
on
the
Sextans
side
downewards
to
12
,
for
the
houres
going
before
the
sixt
Planetary
houre
,
and
thense
backe
againe
outwards
for
the
houres
after
.
And
it
must
haue
riding
on
his
Centre
a
Labell
or
Scale
of
the
Planetary
houres
of
equall
length
to
the
side
or
base
,
deuided
into
sixe
equall
parts
,
numbered
from
the
outer
end
inwards
,
ending
at
the
Centre
with
6
,
and
thense
backe
againe
,
ending
at
12
where
it
began
.
This
Labell
or
Index
is
also
numbered
from
the
Centre
outwards
vnto
12
for
the
vse
of
the
7
Cap.
Now
when
the
common
houre
of
any
day
or
night
is
giuen
,
(
admit
10
of
clocke
40
minutes
afternoone
the
12
of
December
1583
,
being
the
houre
of
the
natiuity
of
my
neere
kinseman
Maister
Walter
Seint-Iohn
,
sonne
and
heyre
to
Sir
Iohn
Seint-Iohn
Knight
of
Lyddiard
in
the
County
of
Willshire
deceased
)
and
that
you
would
know
the
Planetary
houre
,
you
shall
by
the
17
Cap.
first
get
the
houre
and
minute
of
the
Sunne
setting
that
day
,
if
the
houre
giuen
be
of
the
day
or
of
the
Sunne
rising
,
if
the
question
(
as
that
natiuity
was
)
be
of
the
night
(
vz.
you
shall
finde
it
about
8
¼
of
clocke
in
the
morning
)
and
vnto
that
houre
(
vz.
8
¼
)
sought
in
the
Sextans
arche
,
set
the
fiduciall
line
of
the
Planetary
Scale
,
where
immediately
you
shall
see
the
houre-line
equall
to
your
houre
giuen
(
vz.
the
10
⅔
houre-line
reckoned
in
the
Sextans
side
inwards
for
that
midnight
will
be
the
6
Planetary
houre
)
to
cut
off
in
the
Planetary
Scale
the
Planetary
houre
desired
.
(
vz.
it
shall
cut
⅔
partes
of
the
9
Planetary
houre
.
)
And
if
now
you
desire
to
knowe
what
Planet
beareth
dominion
that
houre
,
resort
vnto
the
domineering
Table
which
I
haue
placed
at
the
lower
corner
of
the
Celestiall
,
and
therein
seeke
the
day
or
night
of
the
weeke
proposed
,
accounting
Sunday
for
the
first
,
Munday
the
second
,
&c.
wherein
your
houre
was
giuen
,
(
vz.
Thursday
night
being
the
5
night
I
seeke
the
figure
5
by
the
title
(
Noctes
)
and
follow
that
range
of
Carects
vntill
you
come
vnder
your
Planetary
houre
founde
,
(
vz.
vnder
the
houre
figure
of
9
)
and
there
shall
you
finde
♄
the
Planet
domineering
that
houre
.
Note
,
that
if
you
had
no
domineering
Table
,
you
might
easily
make
it
by
hart
,
beginning
the
first
houre
on
Sunday
with
the
☉
,
and
then
reckoning
the
Planets
on
your
fingers
ends
thus
,
☉
,
♀
,
☿
,
☽
,
♄
,
♃
,
♂
.
☉
,
♀
,
☿
,
☽
,
♄
,
&c.
till
you
haue
done
24
,
so
shall
you
finde
the
25
in
this
accoumpt
to
be
☽
,
and
thereof
Munday
is
called
dies
Lune
,
and
on
Tewsday
will
fall
out
♂
if
you
reckon
on
,
and
thereof
called
dies
Martis
,
euen
so
Wensday
,
dies
Mercurij
,
of
☿
,
Thursday
dies
Iouis
,
of
♃
,
Friday
dies
Veneris
,
of
♀
,
Saterday
,
dies
Saturni
,
of
♄
,
and
all
by
reason
of
this
accoumpt
of
the
7
Planets
.
Cap.
30.
¶
How
you
shall
knowe
to
set
forwards
and
backwards
any
of
the
fixed
Starres
vnto
their
true
places
for
any
age
past
,
or
to
come
.
I
Haue
in
the
2
Cap.
sufficiently
shewed
by
what
meanes
the
fixed
Starres
are
in
apparance
from
age
to
age
,
forced
out
of
one
signe
and
degree
into
another
,
through
the
sliding
backe
of
the
Equinoctiall
intersections
with
the-clipticke
:
preceeding
orderly
and
equally
almost
euery
67
yeares
a
degree
,
which
is
called
the
Medius
,
or
Aequalis
motus
precessionis
seu
fixarum
.
The
gate
whereof
,
how
much
it
is
in
one
day
,
in
one
yeare
,
in
4
,
in
20
,
in
an
100
,
and
in
a
1000
yeares
,
is
set
downe
in
the
first
columne
of
the
Tabula
Radicalis
,
in
the
left
corner
of
the
Celestiall
.
Wherefore
if
you
would
knowe
where
the
equall
place
of
any
Starre
(
admit
of
Arcturus
)
shall
be
any
time
to
come
,
(
admit
for
the
yeare
after
Christ
2000
compleate
)
take
1650
(
for
that
all
the
North
Starres
are
in
this
Celestiall
placed
and
rectifyed
for
that
yeare
)
out
of
the
yeare
proposed
,
and
by
that
first
columne
gather
the
equall
motion
aunswerable
to
that
remayne
.
(
vz.
1650
taken
out
of
2000
leaueth
350
,
for
which
350
yeares
,
I
take
in
the
said
columne
the
motion
of
one
100
yeares
three
times
,
and
of
20
yeares
twise
,
and
of
4
yeares
twise
,
and
of
one
yeare
twise
,
for
that
three
times
100
,
and
twise
20
,
and
twise
4
,
and
twise
one
,
do
make
350
,
and
of
that
collection
there
amounteth
4
deg.
53
min.
almost
.
)
And
so
much
can
I
say
that
those
North
Starres
will
then
be
gone
forwards
from
their
places
,
where
now
in
the
Celestiall
they
are
set
in
regard
of
their
equall
motion
.
But
now
there
is
found
out
by
skilfull
artes-men
a
certaine
librament
or
ballaicing
of
the
Equinoctiall
and
the
Poles
of
the
world
,
as
the
studyed
in
the
Theoricks
well
knowe
,
which
at
one
time
helpeth
forwards
this
equall
motion
,
and
at
another
time
pulleth
it
backe
againe
,
euen
vnto
71
min.
or
1
degr.
11
min.
all
is
one
,
making
by
that
meanes
the
true
motion
vnequall
.
Therefore
I
haue
within
the
Radicall
table
placed
an
instrument
of
my
deuise
to
equate
the
same
,
which
consisteth
(
as
the
Radicall
table
doth
)
of
two
partes
,
the
one
for
the
ablatiue
Aequations
,
the
other
for
the
Adiectiue
,
each
part
hauing
two
limbes
ioyning
together
,
the
outermost
carrying
the
sayd
71
minutes
two
wayes
for
the
ballaicing
too
and
fro
:
the
innermost
being
double
,
in
which
are
written
the
yeares
from
Christes
birth
for
3440
yeares
after
,
numbered
from
the
✿
twise
about
,
for
that
in
so
many
yeares
the
Anomalye
of
this
ballaicings
compleateth
twise
,
&
therefore
that
inner
limbe
is
double
.
Wherefore
if
now
you
would
knowe
this
Aequacion
for
any
yeare
(
admit
the
yeare
2000
)
seeke
the
same
yeare
2000
in
that
double
limbe
,
&
you
shall
finde
in
the
outer
limbe
the
minutes
of
equation
that
answere
thereunto
(
vz.
almost
70
min.
ablatiue
)
to
be
added
or
subducted
too
or
from
the
equall
motion
before
gotten
according
as
the
words
Adiectiuae
or
Ablatiuae
do
admonish
.
(
vz.
whereas
the
equall
motion
of
the
fixed
Starres
was
before
found
for
the
yeare
after
Christ
2000
compleate
to
be
gone
forwards
4
deg.
53
mi.
you
must
now
pull
out
70
minutes
,
so
will
there
be
left
3
deg.
43
min.
their
true
motion
in
that
530
yeares
,
according
to
which
,
the
true
place
of
Arcturus
,
which
for
the
yeare
1650
is
placed
in
this
Celestiall
18
degr.
55
min.
in
♎
,
shall
then
be
22
degr.
38
min
in
♎
.
And
so
for
any
other
North
Starre
,
for
they
all
remooue
alike
.
)
And
likewise
for
any
of
the
South
Starres
,
but
that
you
must
for
them
worke
vpon
the
yeare
1570
,
as
before
you
did
by
1650.
Also
for
any
age
past
(
as
if
it
had
beene
for
350
yeares
before
1650.
vz.
the
yeare
after
Christ
1300
compleate
)
you
should
haue
found
the
Equation
as
much
adiectiue
,
and
by
that
meanes
the
true
motion
of
350
yeares
backwards
6
degr.
3
min.
to
be
pulled
backe
from
their
now
place
,
(
so
that
Arcturus
was
then
but
12
degrees
52
min.
in
♎
.
Cap.
31.
¶
How
by
help
of
this
Astrolabe
to
get
the
longitude
and
latitude
of
any
Planet
,
yea
,
or
of
any
Starre
or
Comet
seene
.
HAuing
a
Meridian
exactly
set
as
in
the
9
Cap.
is
taught
,
you
shall
obserue
the
comming
of
any
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
Comet
to
the
Meridian
either
in
the
South
or
North
partes
,
(
as
for
example
the
2
of
October
1596
I
obserued
the
comming
of
♃
to
our
Meridian
heere
at
Reading
)
and
there
take
his
meridian
altitude
(
which
I
found
50
½
deg.
)
as
is
taught
in
the
11
Cap.
and
presently
(
except
you
haue
some
clocke
or
watch
truly
set
)
get
the
houre
and
minute
if
you
can
by
taking
the
altitude
of
some
knowne
Starre
,
as
in
the
13
Cap.
is
taught
,
(
I
found
it
a
quarter
of
an
houre
past
one
and
better
after
midnight
)
which
done
,
seeke
that
houre
and
minute
in
the
houre
circle
,
and
labell
it
to
the
☉
planted
by
the
4
Cap.
(
at
20
de.
10
min.
of
♎
)
&
there
hold
fast
the
Zenitfer
,
&
number
the
verticall
distance
or
complement
of
the
Merid.
alti
.
before-taken
(
vz.
39
½
de
.
)
on
the
nooneline
from
the
Zenith
point
towards
Meridies
,
if
your
Merid.
alti
.
taken
were
South
,
or
towards
Media
nox
,
if
North
,
(
which
heere
being
South
,
will
fall
out
at
the
12
¼
radiall
degree
numbered
from
the
Aequinoctiall
)
where
make
a
pricke
on
the
Celestiall
,
for
there
shall
be
the
true
point
or
place
of
the
(
♃
)
Starre
,
Planet
,
or
Comet
,
obserued
for
that
instant
,
and
the
circles
of
the-clipticks
longitude
and
latitude
cutting
that
point
,
shall
shew
you
his
longitude
and
latitude
sought
(
vz.
the
circle
of
longitude
passing
by
that
verticall
distance
or
pricke
made
,
shewed
me
in
the
clipticke
8
degrees
30
minutes
almost
of
♉
,
the
longitude
of
♃
,
and
the
circle
of
latitude
cutting
that
pricke
,
shewed
me
almost
2
degrees
Southwards
from
the-clipticke
his
latitude
.
)
And
this
serueth
for
the
☽
,
or
any
Planet
,
Starre
,
or
Comet
seene
.
And
now
by
helpe
of
this
latitude
thus
gotten
,
you
may
as
easily
get
the
true
places
of
the
Starres
seene
in
any
other
place
as
well
as
in
the
Meridian
perpetually
,
for
that
their
latitudes
neuer
alter
,
and
of
♄
,
♃
,
or
♂
,
20
or
30
dayes
after
:
for
that
theirs
altereth
little
in
that
time
,
and
of
♀
for
a
day
or
two
after
,
but
not
for
the
☽
,
because
her
latitude
changeth
swiftly
,
neither
for
☿
,
because
in
our
Clymat
we
neuer
see
him
:
In
this
maner
.
Take
the
altitude
of
any
Starre
,
Planet
,
or
Comet
,
whose
latitude
is
foreknowne
either
by
this
Cap.
or
otherwise
at
any
houre
and
minute
knowne
,
taking
good
heede
whether
he
be
in
the
East
or
West
Hemispheare
.
Then
prepare
the
Zenitfer
to
that
altitude
taken
,
then
labell
the
houre
and
minute
to
the
☉
,
and
there
hold
fast
the
Zenitfer
.
Which
done
,
apply
the
pointer
to
the
circle
of
latitude
of
the
Starre
or
Planet
either
in
the
East
or
West
Hemicicle
,
according
as
the
Starre
or
Planet
was
at
taking
his
altitude
,
so
shall
the
circle
of
longitude
passing
by
the
pointer
so
applyed
,
shew
the
longitude
of
the
Starre
or
Planet
in
the-clipticke
.
Note
,
that
Io.
Stophlerus
lib.
2.
prop.
38.
reciteth
7
propositions
which
some
lying
Astronomers
(
as
he
tearmeth
them
)
haue
taken
vpon
them
to
teach
on
the
Astrolabe
,
which
he
there
condemneth
to
be
most
false
,
and
not
possible
,
and
therefore
spendeth
a
Chapter
to
forewarne
euery
man
to
take
heede
and
not
to
meddle
with
them
.
And
these
are
the
7
,
the
first
,
to
knowe
the
longitude
of
the
☽
,
the
second
,
the
longitude
of
♄
,
♃
,
♂
,
♀
,
or
☿
,
the
third
,
to
get
their
latitudes
,
the
fourth
,
to
know
whether
a
Planet
be
direct
or
retrograde
,
the
fift
,
to
know
the
longitude
of
any
Starre
in
the
Reete
,
the
sixt
,
the
latitude
of
fixed
Starres
,
the
seuenth
,
the
longitude
of
Starres
not
in
the
Reete
.
And
now
I
am
to
rewarne
all
men
,
that
they
are
all
possible
by
this
Astrolabe
,
and
by
my
Iewell
also
,
and
the
whole
7
sauing
the
4
,
are
performed
by
this
one
Chapter
:
because
I
would
not
haue
them
now
daunted
with
that
38
propos
.
of
Stophler
who
meant
it
no
doubt
only
,
by
that
Astrolabe
whereof
himselfe
wrote
.
Cap.
32.
¶
A
ready
way
by
helpe
of
this
Astrolabe
,
heereafter
to
obserue
the
motions
of
Comets
.
BEcause
I
haue
seene
some
4
or
fiue
yeares
past
a
booke
entituled
Noua
theoria
Cometarum
as
I
remember
,
set
foorth
by
one
Reslyn
,
who
taking
occasion
vppon
that
great
Comet
or
Blazing-Starre
,
which
Anno
1570
was
seene
so
long
in
the
Constellation
of
Cassiopeia
,
in
a
manner
fixed
without
motion
,
to
imagining
therefore
that
Comet
to
happen
in
the
very
Pole
of
the
Theoricke
,
and
that
to
be
the
cause
why
he
mooued
not
,
thereupon
runneth
on
a
course
,
with
recitall
of
diuers
Comets
and
their
motions
,
but
concluded
no
certaintie
to
my
remembrance
,
ending
his
booke
with
this
saying
,
Est
quodam
prodire
tenus
si
non
datur
vltra
.
But
our
late
learned
countreyman
,
Mayster
Digges
,
in
his
Scala
Mathematica
found
,
because
he
had
no
Parallax
,
that
he
must
needes
be
beyond
the
Speere
of
the
☽
.
Well
no
doubt
there
can
not
any
weighty
thing
come
to
perfection
at
the
first
,
second
,
or
third
assay
,
and
therefore
to
the
end
it
may
be
a
generall
care
to
obserue
the
motions
of
Comets
when
they
happen
,
I
haue
thought
good
to
aduertise
euery
man
in
this
Cap.
that
either
on
this
Astrolabe
or
on
the
Globe
,
it
is
a
most
easy
matter
when
any
Planet
appeareth
,
to
pricke
downe
his
place
euen
by
the
very
view
of
his
scituation
among
the
fixed
Starres
,
seeing
by
the
25
Cap.
before
you
may
so
easily
learne
to
know
them
all
.
As
for
example
in
Iuly
this
yeare
1596
there
appeared
a
Comet
with
a
streaming
tayle
vpwards
in
the
North-west
,
which
vpon
Tewsday
the
20
of
Iuly
aforesayd
,
about
9
of
the
clocke
at
night
,
I
first
tooke
heede
of
betweene
the
two
hinder
legs
of
Vrsa
maior
almost
in
a
streight
line
,
(
but
somewhat
lower
,
and
two
parts
of
the
way
)
between
the
Starre
of
the
fourth
light
in
the
neere
hocke
of
the
neere
hinder
legge
,
and
the
two
Starres
of
the
third
light
in
the
further
foote
behinde
,
according
whereunto
I
made
a
pricke
in
the
Celestiall
of
this
Astrolabe
.
The
21
of
Iuly
the
same
houre
,
I
sawe
him
directly
in
the
streight
line
aforesayde
,
and
distant
from
the
sayd
two
Starres
twise
their
distance
.
The
22
day
the
same
houre
I
sawe
him
a
little
aboue
the
streight
line
,
and
but
their
distance
off
.
The
23
of
Iuly
the
night
was
darke
.
The
24
of
Iuly
I
sawe
him
aboue
those
two
Starres
of
the
third
light
,
and
to
make
an
equilater
triangle
with
them
:
all
which
,
I
noted
downe
euery
night
with
pricks
,
then
followed
a
fewe
clowdy
and
darke
nights
,
and
after
that
24
day
he
was
no
more
seene
.
This
Comet
was
seene
of
many
others
some
fortnight
before
I
sawe
him
,
as
neere
as
I
could
gesse
by
their
relacion
euen
about
the
brisket
of
Vrsa
maior
,
a
little
behinde
the
hocke
of
the
neere
legge
afore
,
which
also
I
pricked
downe
:
and
haue
caused
those
pricks
and
the
trayle
of
his
gate
to
be
grauen
in
the
Celestiall
,
in
the
Constellacion
of
Vrsa
maior
if
you
marke
it
,
(
though
not
done
fully
to
my
purpose
)
to
the
end
to
incite
others
heereafter
to
do
the
like
,
that
posterity
at
the
last
may
finde
out
whether
there
be
any
regularity
in
their
motions
.
If
the
Comet
chaunce
to
come
to
the
Meridian
either
in
the
North
or
South
(
as
this
did
not
in
sight
)
then
by
the
last
Cap.
you
may
get
his
longitude
&
latitude
euery
night
,
and
so
pricke
downe
euery
dayes
motion
the
more
exactly
.
FINIS
.