C H A P. IV.ASTKONOMT.

r?e obfc/vitory 1 npHE Island mcn, (vulgany termed the Scarlet-Ijland) famous foro/Tydioliri- ■ the Observations of Tycho Brake that Renowned Danis: Astrono-

«.! GounJon. JL. mer, (with ali fhbmisllon to better Judgments) was none of the

n! 216- r- 6-2. sittest tor Astronomica! Observations of all sorrs, such as the taking the exaclTime of the trne Riiing and Setting of Celestial Bodies, together with theirreipcclive Amplituden ; because the Island lies low, and is Land-lockt on alithe Points of the Compais, lave threc. Belides, The sensible Land Hori/.onof the If'ccn is extreamly tineven and rugged, die North and Eastern Partsthereof being sonte riftng Hills in the Provincc of Schonen ; and the Westernpart is mostly overfpread with Trees on the Island Zealnnd . from the re-motest of which Coasts the iVccn is not distant above three Lcagues.

,A 'M'Ono- II. M. TVeighelius bath Invented an Instrument, which he calls Aßrodiclicum,b y tbe means whereof very niany Perlons sliall be able at one and the'simeriut.' n. 74? ' L tinte to bchold one and the fame Star. He hath also Invented an exceedings.22i?. great Globe of the World, capable of io Perlons to sit in it all at once, and

to behold the Motions of the Celestial Bodies, Oe.

./ C'itßuiiGiobc - ; III. The bignels of this Globe is only of four Inches Diameter. The Bo-

p AUcman! r of the Globe of Burnisltt Steel, wherc all the Figures of the Constellations

r- 9 °i- arc designed in Siiver-colour, but the Stars themfelves of all Magnitudes are• put on in Embofs’d Gold.

This Globe moves from East to West in 14 hours • and you may therefee the Sun exactly Rise and Set as in the great World, together with theMoon, as allb the Stars of the Constellations ; likewise, how the Sun of thisGlobe comes to his Meridian, with an admirable Regularity, conftrm to theBrimum Mobile. And yo.t may alio there perceive the mean Motions of theSun and Moon from West to East, and all the Lunations; and by the Diur-nal Motion of the Moon, it -shews the Flux and Reflux of the Sea.

The Meridian lerveth for a Needle to Ihew the Hours, which are markedupon the Zodiack, where the Sun marcheth regularly, which hath two mainRays, one whereof goeth dircctly Northward, the other Southward. Thatof the North marks the way or Degree, which the Sun maketh from West toEast upon the Signs of the Zodiack, and upon a Circle of Silver, where the360 Dcgrees of the Circle are mark’d. The other Ray of the South, marksupon another Circle of Silver the Daysof the Month, where the Daysare noted. T’hc Circles of the Longitude of the Stars, which separate the