Read Ebook: A Briefe Introduction to Geography by Pemble William

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The sixt containes some notable places by which the Climats passe.

CAP. 6.

Wee are now come to the last point concerning the measuring of the Earth, which is two fold. Either of the { 1 Whole earth. { { 2 Severall parts thereof, and their distance one from { another.

The means wherby the circuit and Diameter of the earth are found out are principally two.

First vpon the Globe it is most easie. With a payre of Compasses take the distance betweene any two places howsoever scituated vpon the Globe, and apply the distance so taken to the AEquator, & see how many degrees it takes vp; those degrees turned into miles shew the distance of the two citties on from another.

Vpon vniuersall mapps theire is a little more difficulty in finding the distance of places which here must bee considered in a threefold difference of scituation:

FINIS.

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