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miles in a degree; for at London about thirty-seven make a degree of longitude, so these degrees grow less and less until they meet at the latitude of ninety, that is under the poles.
Parallels—the lines straight and circular, equally distant from each other, as the equinox, tropics, degrees of latitude, etc.
Climate or Clime, is such a space of earth comprehended between two parallels, in which space there is half an hour difference in the sundials and length of the days.
Antipodes are those whose feet are directly against ours, as if a line were drawn from one through the centre of the earth to the other.
And this shall suffice for an explanation, which I have done as briefly as I could for the advantage of the reader, to whom possibly, these things so necessary to be known, may have hitherto been concealed.
Know what Planet Anyone was Born under.
The planetary hours are those hours in which each planet reigns, and has the chief dominion, of which, the ancients gave the following account:—
Saturn is lord on Saturday; Jupiter on Thursday; Mars on Tuesday; Sol on Sunday; Mercury on Wednesday; Venus on Friday, and Luna on Monday.
On Saturday, the first hour after midnight, Saturn reigns, the second Jupiter, the third Mars, the fourth Sol, the fifth Venus, the sixth Mercury, the seventh Luna, and then again, Saturn the eighth, and so on to Mars the twenty-fourth; and then Sol beginneth the first hour after midnight on Sunday, Venus the second, and so on; Luna the first on Monday, and Saturn the second; Mars the first on Tuesday, Sol the second, and so forward, planet by planet, according to their order, by which every planet reigns the first hour of his own day, and so likewise, the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second; as for instance, Saturn reigns the first hour, the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second on Saturday, Sol the same hours on Sunday, Luna the same on Monday, Mars the same on Tuesday, Mercury
