Popular treatises on science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English / Edited from the original manuscripts by Thomas Wright.

  • Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Popular treatises on science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and English / Edited from the original manuscripts by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    heo up-weard hr8, j heo -Sonne to-draefS ]m nihtlican {teostru mid hyre micclan leohte. Eall swa Jdcce is ]?eo heofon mid steorrum afylled on daeg swa on niht, ac hi nabbaS nane lyhtinge for J?aere sunnan andwerdnysse. We hata3 aenne daeg fram sunnan up-gange o^ aefen,ac swa]?eah is on bocum ge-teald to anum daege fram }?aere sunnan up-gange oS f beo eft becume J?aer heo aer up-stah : on )?am faece synd ge-tealde feower j twentig tida. Seo sunne is swfbe mycel, eali swa brad heo is J/aes pe bee secga^S, swa eali eorSan ymb-hwyrft, ac heo ]?ing$ us swy-Se un-brad, for )?am pe beo is swrSe feorr fram urum ge-sih]?um. ./Elc JnngS pe hit fyrr by3 pe hit pe laesse ^ingS. We magon ]?eah hwaeSere to-cnawan be hyre leoman f heo unlytel is. Swa ra^e swa heo up-astihS? heo scinS geond ealle eorSan ge-lice, ^ ealre eorSan brad- nysse endemes ofer-wryhS. Eac swylce ]?a steorran pe us lyttle jungea^S, synd swycSe brade, j for -Sam miclum waete );e us betweonan ys, hi synd ge-]mhte urum ge-sihbum swiSe ge-hwaede. Hi ne mihton swa |?eah nan leoht to eorSan asendan fram ]?aere heahlican heofenan, gyf hi swa ge-hwaede waeron swa swa urum eagum. SoSlice se mona j ealle steor¬ ran under-foS leoht of Saere miclan sunnan, y heora nan naefS naenne leoman buton of £>aere sunnan leoman, j ];eah. pe seo sunne under eorSan on nihtlicre tide seine, ]?eah astih^S hyre leoht on sumre sidan J?aere eorSan pe -Sa steorran bufan us on-liht, ^ J?onne heo up agae^S heo ofer-swrb ealra ]?aera steor- rena j eac ];aes monan leoht mid hyre ormaetan leohte. Seo sunne ge-tacna“S urne Haelend Crist, se ^e ys rihtwisnysse sunne, swa swa se witega cwae$, Timentibus autem nomen Do¬ mini orietur sol justifies, et sanitas in pennis ejus. Ham man- num pe him on-draedaS Godes naman ]?am arist rihtwisnysse nocturnal darkness by her great light. The heaven is as thickly filled with stars by day as by night, but they have no light, on account of the sun’s presence. We call one day from sun-rise to even, but yet in books there is reckoned to a day from sun-rise till she again arrive at the place where she rose: in that space are reckoned twenty-four hours. The sun is very great, as broad she is, from what books say, as the whole compass of the earth ; but she appears to us very small, because she is very far from our sight. Every thing the further it is, the less it seems. We may however be convinced by her rays that she is not small. As soon as she is risen, she shines over all the earth equally, and equally extends over the breadth of the whole earth. The stars also, which seem to us little, are very broad, and on account of the great moisture that is between us they seem to our sight to be very small. Yet they could not send any light to earth from the high heaven, if they were so small as they appear to our eyes. Truly the moon and all the stars receive light from the great sun, and none of them hath any rays but of the sun’s rays. And though the sun shine under the earth at night, yet her light ascends on a part of tjie earth wdiich illuminates the stars above us, and when she rises she overcomes the light of all the stars and also of the moon by her immense light. The sun is typi¬ cal of our Saviour Christ, who is the sun of righteousness, as the prophet said, ‘ To B 2