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Os Cofmography.
V "T ’
your maps and pictures will quickly become pale,
loosing their life and colours $ or, rotting upon their
cloath or paper, decay past all help and recovery.
CHAP. VII.
Os Cosmography*
THatlikea strangerin aforrain land, ye may not
wander without a guide,ignorant os those places
by which you are to pa lie, and flick amused ; amazed
in the Labyrinth of Hijiory : Cosmograpbv a second
Ariadne, bringing lines enough, is come to your deli-
very; whom imagine ffanding on a fairhili, and with
one hand, pointing and discoursing unto you of the
Coclestial Sphere, the names, uses,and diflin&ions of
every Circle, whereof it consisteth, the scituation os
Regions according to the same,the reason of Climates,
length and shortness of daies and nights,motion,rising
and setting,as well of fixed stars,as erratick, elevation
of the Pole, Parallels, Meridians* and whatsoever else
respetteth that Ccelestial body.
With the other hand downward, she shewethyou
the Globe of the earth, (distinguistied by Seas,Motin-
tain€,Rivers,Rocks,Lakes and chelike:)the subjeft of
Geographic, which defined according to Ptelowy and
others, is an imitation of the face (by draught and
pifture^) of the whole earth, and all the principal and
known parts thereof,with the most remarkable things
thereunto belonging,
A science at once both feeding the eye and mind
with such incredible variety. and profitable pleasure,
that even the greatest Kings and Philosophers have not
only bestowed thebest part of their tmein the contem-
plation hereos at home, but to their infinite charge and
peril of their persons,have shemselv'es travelled to un-
derhand the Scituation os far Conneries, bounds of
Seas
V "T ’
your maps and pictures will quickly become pale,
loosing their life and colours $ or, rotting upon their
cloath or paper, decay past all help and recovery.
CHAP. VII.
Os Cosmography*
THatlikea strangerin aforrain land, ye may not
wander without a guide,ignorant os those places
by which you are to pa lie, and flick amused ; amazed
in the Labyrinth of Hijiory : Cosmograpbv a second
Ariadne, bringing lines enough, is come to your deli-
very; whom imagine ffanding on a fairhili, and with
one hand, pointing and discoursing unto you of the
Coclestial Sphere, the names, uses,and diflin&ions of
every Circle, whereof it consisteth, the scituation os
Regions according to the same,the reason of Climates,
length and shortness of daies and nights,motion,rising
and setting,as well of fixed stars,as erratick, elevation
of the Pole, Parallels, Meridians* and whatsoever else
respetteth that Ccelestial body.
With the other hand downward, she shewethyou
the Globe of the earth, (distinguistied by Seas,Motin-
tain€,Rivers,Rocks,Lakes and chelike:)the subjeft of
Geographic, which defined according to Ptelowy and
others, is an imitation of the face (by draught and
pifture^) of the whole earth, and all the principal and
known parts thereof,with the most remarkable things
thereunto belonging,
A science at once both feeding the eye and mind
with such incredible variety. and profitable pleasure,
that even the greatest Kings and Philosophers have not
only bestowed thebest part of their tmein the contem-
plation hereos at home, but to their infinite charge and
peril of their persons,have shemselv'es travelled to un-
derhand the Scituation os far Conneries, bounds of
Seas