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As by experience I have found your singular humainty, by
late conferences, to make good the noble fame of your great learning
so hath itt emboldened me by thro my Lord to request that
you would send me word by this bearer the variation of
the nedle is about Mosco: for at this present I have such
an ympediment fallen into my toes that that I cannot walke
abroade otherwise I had been the presenter of this my
request unto you my selfe. which if it might have been
should then have moved some other questions viz whether it
is probable that the variation ran so in any plane of the world
180 degrees, or the north point of the needle stand directly to the south.
Allso whether a shippe sailing right east, or by the compasse keepes upon
a parallell, as the common derived opinion amongst Maryners is, which
I think not because the east and west of the sonne also is a
Tangent to the parallell, but how little soever it so continues in
sailing, it is a portion or [???] of the great circle of the east
and west, and therefore (I conceive) that cannot but decline from the
parallell. But ceasing to trouble you with these manner of
questions, I crave pardon for this my boldnes beseeching
late conferences, to make good the noble fame of your great learning
so hath itt emboldened me by thro my Lord to request that
you would send me word by this bearer the variation of
the nedle is about Mosco: for at this present I have such
an ympediment fallen into my toes that that I cannot walke
abroade otherwise I had been the presenter of this my
request unto you my selfe. which if it might have been
should then have moved some other questions viz whether it
is probable that the variation ran so in any plane of the world
180 degrees, or the north point of the needle stand directly to the south.
Allso whether a shippe sailing right east, or by the compasse keepes upon
a parallell, as the common derived opinion amongst Maryners is, which
I think not because the east and west of the sonne also is a
Tangent to the parallell, but how little soever it so continues in
sailing, it is a portion or [???] of the great circle of the east
and west, and therefore (I conceive) that cannot but decline from the
parallell. But ceasing to trouble you with these manner of
questions, I crave pardon for this my boldnes beseeching
Att your command
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Jo:
9 Jany.