CVI.

The Eclipses. Eclipses.

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The _Sun_ is the fountain of light, inlightning all things, _Sol_ est fons Lucis, illuminans omnia; but the _Earth_, 1. and the _Moon_, 2. being shady bodies, are not pierced with its rays, for they cast a shadow upon the place just over against them. sed _Terra_, 1. & _Luna_, 2. Corpora opaca, non penetrantur ejus radiis, nam jaciunt umbram in locum oppositum.

Therefore, when the Moon lighteth into the shadow of the _Earth_, 2. Ideo cum Luna incidit in umbram _Terræ_, 2. it is darkened, which we call an _Eclipse_, or defect. obscuratur quod vocamus _Eclipsin_ (deliquium) Lunæ.

But when the _Moon_ runneth betwixt the _Sun_ and the _Earth_, 3. it covereth it with its shadow; Cum vero _Luna_ currit inter _Solem_ & _Terram_, 3. obtegit illum umbrâ suâ; and this we call the _Eclipse_ of the _Sun_, because it taketh from us the sight of the _Sun_, and its light; & hoc vocamus _Eclipsin Solis_, quia adimit nobis prospectum _Solis_, & lucem ejus; neither doth the _Sun_ for all that suffer any thing, but the _Earth_. nec tamen _Sol_ patitur aliquid, sed _Terra_.

CVII. _a_

The terrestial Sphere. Sphera terrestris.

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The _Earth_ is round, and therefore to be represented by two _Hemispheres_, a..b. _Terra_ est rotunda, fingenda igitur duobus _Hemispheriis_, a..b.

The Circuit of it is 360 _degrees_ (whereof every one maketh 60 _English_ Miles or 21600 Miles,) Ambitus ejus est _graduum_ CCCLX. (quorum quisque facit LX. Milliaria _Anglica_ vel 21600 Milliarium) and yet it is but a prick, compared with the World, whereof it is the _Centre_. & tamen est punctum, collata cum orbe, cujus _Centrum_ est.

They measure Longitude of it by _Climates_, 1. and the _Latitude_ by _Parallels_, 2. Longitudinem ejus dimetiuntur _Climatibus_, 1. _Latitudinem_, lineis _Parallelis_, 2.

The _Ocean_, 3. compasseth it about, and five _Seas_ wash it, _Oceanus_, 3. ambit eam & _Maria_ V. perfundunt the _Mediterranean Sea_, 4. the _Baltick Sea_, 5. the _Red Sea_, 6. the _Persian Sea_, 7. and the _Caspian Sea_, 8. _Mediterraneum_, 4. _Balticum_, 5. _Erythræum_, 6. _Persicum_, 7. _Caspium_, 8.

CVII. _b_

The terrestial Sphere. Sphera terrestris.

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It is divided into V. _Zones_, whereof the II. _frigid ones_, 9....9. are uninhabitable; Distribuitur in _Zonas_ V., quarum duæ _frigidæ_, 9....9. sunt inhabitabiles; the II. _Temperate_ ones, 10....10. and the _Torrid_ one, 11. habitable. duæ _Temperatæ_, 10....10. & _Torrida_, 11. habitantur.

Besides it is divided into three _Continents_; Ceterum divisa est in tres _Continentes;_ this of ours, 12. which is subdivided into _Europe_, 13. _Asia,_ 14. _Africa_, 15. nostram, 12. quæ subdividitur in _Europam_, 13. _Asiam_, 14. & _Africam_, 15. _America_, 16....16. (whose Inhabitants are _Antipodes_ to us;) and the _South Land_, 17....17. yet unknown. in _Americam_, 16....16. (cujus incolæ sunt _Antipodes_ nobis;) & in _Terram Australem_, 17....17. adhuc incognitam.

They that dwell under the _North pole_, 18. have the days and nights 6 months long. Habitantes sub _Arcto_, 18. habent Dies Noctes semestrales,

Infinite _Islands_ float in the Seas. Infinitæ _Insulæ_ natant in maribus.