Globe turns round its Axis, do each receive it for their own Meridian, for 'tis all one as if a different Meridian had been actually drawn on the Globe thro' every Place.
No doubt on't, said she, for 'tis the same thing, as to meeting, whether the Mountain walks to Mahomet, or He stalk to the Mountain: But methinks this Earthly Meridian is either very lazy, or else takes great State upon him, that all Places must come to him, while he stands and struts here, and won't stir the least Step towards them.———Have you any thing more to tell me about this Man of Brass; Spenser did wisely to make his Man Talus out of Iron, that was to be Arthegall's Page and to bear so busy and active a Part in his Story.
Madam, said I, this Brass Meridian serves also, by its moving thus, round, North or South, Height of the Pole.in this perpendicular Situation to the Horizon, to elevate or raise the Pole of any Place as much above its Horizon in Degrees, as is the Latitude of that Place, or its Distance from the Equator, and then that particular Place will be brought to lye in the Zenith, or uppermost Point of the Globe.
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