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<h4>Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition</h4> <h1>An Irish Astronomical Tract</h1> <h2>Author: [unknown]</h2> <hr> <h2>GLORIA DEO PRINCIPIO</h2> <p>Glory to God; whose beginning is without beginning, and whose end is without end, to the Person who existed always before everything, who will be eternal after everything, and to Him whom sense or human reason does not attain, to know or recognise what He is.</p> <p>And since he did not wish to remain for ever without manifesting Himself to men, He instructed the learned in His works and arts, so that the worker would be known from the works and the creator from the deeds, and therefore, it is fitting for the learned ones to whom He revealed His secrets to glorify Him above everything.</p> <p>Therefore, let us here begin to examine the difficult, obscure questions of the ancients concerning the works, and in particular <i>we discuss</i>, with the help of the Creator of whom I speak, the characteristics of the firmament and of the four elements, and of their situation and their creation, with very just, forcible arguments and indisputable, irrefutable reasons and conclusions.</p> <p>There are in this book, inclusive, forty chapters, and this is the first chapter of them:&#0151; <ol> <li>The creation and manifestation of the firmament. (1)</li> <li>The four elements and their positions as the Creator ordained them.(2)</li> <li>Their motions and natures. (3)</li> <li>Their natures and motions. </li> <li>The roundness of the four elements. (5)</li> <li>The disagreement of the four elements and the nature of them. (6)</li> <li>The rotundity of the earth and the knowledge of day and night. (7)</li> <li>The change of the sea and the rivers. (8)</li> <li>The characteristics of the earth and the hills. (8)</li> <li>The characteristics of the waters and the motion of the earth. (9)</li> <li>The two burning volcanoes. (10)</li> <li>The flow and ebb of the tide. (11)</li> <li>The flood of the river Nile in Egypt. (12)</li> <li>The roundness of the firmament; its motion and its natures. (13)</li> <li>The revolution of the firmament and of the sun. (14)</li> <li>The change of the firmament. (15)</li> <li>The circles lines and points of the firmament.(16)</li> <li>The difference in sunrise and sunset. (17)</li> <li>The knowledge of the size of the sun. (18)</li> <li>The light of the moon, which borrows from the sun. (21)</li> <li>The eclipse of the moon. (22)</li> <li>The light of the constellations. (23)</li> <li>The eclipse of the sun. (24)</li> <li>The reason why the moon appears small, and large at its prime. (25)</li> <li>The characteristics of the light of the moon. (26)</li> <li>The number of circles of the moon.(27)</li> <li>The two spheres of the sun. (28)</li> <li>All the circles and their motion. (29)</li> <li>The motion of the Great Sphere. (30)</li> <li>The motion of the Sphere of the Signs. (31)</li> <li>The change of nature and the seasons. (31)</li> <li>The number of the circles of Saturn and the other planets. (32)</li> <li>The retrograde movement of Saturn and the other planets. (32)</li> <li>The Sphere of the Stars. (34)</li> <li>The number of miles around the earth. (35)</li> <li>The change of the stars in different countries.</li> <li>The eight habitable regions of the earth. (36)</li> <li>The two places where the whole year is one day and one night. (37)</li> <li>The winds and their nature. (38)</li> <li>Thunder, clouds, rain and lightning. (39)</li> <li>The plants. (40) </li></ol> <h4>Concerning the nature of those lands:</h4> <h4>The nature of the second zone:</h4> <h4>The nature of the third zone:</h4> <h4>The nature of the fourth zone:</h4> <h4>The nature of the fifth zone:</h4> <h4>The nature of the sixth zone:</h4><h3 align="center"><a href="../T600030.html">The complete text for non-framing browsers</a></h3>