The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record].

  • Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.
Date:
1556
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SECONDS TREATISE quarters of the zodiAe The quarters of the yeare. The Signes in euerye quarter of the diake, awf-iveryng to eche quar^ ter of theyeare^ \ u Springe* Aries, = ' Taurus, Gemini* 2* Sommmer ♦ Cancer^ Leo,‘ Virgo* Harueft Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius* 4* 1 Winter* Capriedraus, Aquarius, Pifees. me not ouiy --x- ciccui^omcd otdrejas here in a table it doth apcar j wher I hauc alfo annexed the quarters of the year for readines ofremem brance,$ for the better occafion to tnarke the motion of the fon in eche of thofc quarters. And thus haue we ended the globe or fphere.with al ^ circles in it cuftomably vfed,whofe pidf ure here you may fcjas it wiU be drawen in ilatte forme. A, C .is tlie Equinodial circle* EjK.the tropik of Cancer. QJE.the tropik of Capricorn QJK^.The Zodiake. B, aiid DjThe i>Polcs of the worlde. K F, I*The Ariflike circle. P,M.The Antarf^hke circle, a G, H,and OjN.The two Po- lare circles. G, and N, The i]. Poles of ▼ ^ the Zodiake. rhema%tg Nowforthe Horizot of the Ho» ^ the Meridia thus (hal rizonte^ you do*Takc2* fquarc ^ _ bords ofa quarter ofan inch thick, let | one be in bredthj* incheSjSf the other one inch 9 a halfmore then | diameter of your globe,in I middle of thebroder bor.de take a centre, 35 on I cetre make a circle,fcarfly a corn bredch wider the your globe is ,which you flial thus find out* Open your copas as wide as i]*figns in| Zodiak,or do*degres in | Equinocflial, ' or any /