adoxall Compasses

[Anno. 1559.]

(of me Inuented, for our two Moscouy Master Pilotes, at the request of
the Company) Clockes with spryng: houre, halfe houre, and three houre
Sandglasses: & sundry other Instrumentes: And also, be hable, on Globe,
or Playne to describe the Paradoxall Compasse: and duely to vse the
same, to all maner of purposes, whereto it was inuented. And also, be
hable to Calculate the Planetes places for all tymes.

Moreouer, with Sonne Mone or Sterre (or without) be hable to define the
Longitude & Latitude of the place, which he is in: So that, the
Longitude & Latitude of the place, from which he sayled, be giuen: or by
him, be knowne. whereto, appertayneth expert meanes, to be certified
euer, of the Ships way. &c. And by foreseing the Rising, Settyng,
Nonestedyng, or Midnightyng of certaine tempestuous fixed Sterres: or
their Coniunctions, and Anglynges with the Planetes, &c. he ought to
haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke
Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea. For (as _Plato_ sayth,)
_Mutationes, opportunitates[que] temporum presentire, non minus rei
militari, quam Agriculturae, Nauigationi[que] conuenit. +To foresee the
alterations and opportunities of tymes, is conuenient, no lesse to the
Art of Warre, then to Husbandry and Nauigation.+_ And besides such
cunnyng meanes, more euident tokens in Sonne and Mone, ought of hym to
be knowen: such as (the Philosophicall Poete) _Virgilius_ teacheth, in
hys _Georgikes_. Where he sayth,

[Sidenote: Georgic. 1.]

_Sol quo[que] & exoriens & quum se condet in vndas,
Signa dabit, Solem certissima signa sequuntur. &c.
-------- Nam saepe videmus,
Ipsius in vultu varios errare colores.
Caeruleus, pluuiam denunciat, igneus Euros.
Sin maculae incipient rutilo immiscerier igni,
Omnia tum pariter vento, nimbis[que] videbis
Feruere: non illa quisquam me nocte per altum
Ire, ne[que] a terra moueat conuellere funem. &c.
Sol tibi signa dabit. Solem quis dicere falsum
Audeat? -------- &c._

And so of Mone, Sterres, Water, Ayre, Fire, Wood, Stones, Birdes, and
Beastes, and of many thynges els, a certaine Sympathicall forewarnyng
may be had: sometymes to great pleasure and proffit, both on Sea and
Land. Sufficiently, for my present purpose, it doth appeare, by the
premisses, how _Mathematicall_, the _Arte_ of _Nauigation_, is: and how
it nedeth and also vseth other _Mathematicall Artes_: