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---------+-------------------+ | 23 | 46 | 23 30 | 66 28 | 0 5 | And Landmarkes. | | | 47 | 23 45 | 66 20 | | | +------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+-------------------+ | 24 | 48 | 24 0 | 66 31 | 0 0 | Island vnder the | | | | | | | Articke circle. | +------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+-------------------+ |Here the Climats | Menses | | These Climats are supposed | |are accounted by +---------+-----------+ to passe by diverse Ilands | |the months from | 1 | 67 15 | within the Articke circle | |66 Degr. 31 min. +---------+-----------+ as Groenland, Island, | |where the day is | 2 | 69 30 | Greenland: wherein as yet | |24 houres vnto +---------+-----------+ for the narrownesse of | |the Pole it selfe| 3 | 73 20 | these climats comming | |set at 90 Degrees+---------+-----------+ neere together, and the | |where the | 4 | 78 20 | vncertainty of | |artificiall day +---------+-----------+ observation no | |is sixe Months. | 5 | 84 0 | speciall places haue beene | | +---------+-----------+ assigned as to the other. | | | 6 | 90 0 | | +-----------------+---------+-----------+-----------------------------+ 1 The vse of this table is easie. In the first Culumne are contained the names and number of the Climats. In the second the Paralells which enclose it on each side, and deuide it in the middest. For the paralells here are drawne by euery halfe houres encrease. The third Columne is the length of the Day in Summer, in euery Climate, which from 12. houres encreaseth by halfe houres to 24. houres after by moneths, from one moneth to sixe. The fourth containes the degrees of latitude, how farre euery climate lies from the AEquinoctiall. The fift contaynes the space or breadth of euery Climate, how many degrees or minutes it takes vp vpon the Earth. The sixt containes some notable places by which the Climats passe. 2 Hereby it is easie to know what the longest Day is in any Place of the worlde whose latitude is knowne. Or contrarily the longest Day being knowne to know the latitude. For example Oxford hath latitude 52.0. degrees longitude 24.0. In the table I finde that
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