The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling, : containing such elements of the said arts or sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known. / by Edward Wells.

  • Edward Wells
Date:
1718
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Credit: The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling, : containing such elements of the said arts or sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known. / by Edward Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap. I. ✓VXJ 9- Hero the unequal Hours an- fsoerto our sotnmon equal Hours. M'hich Ob~ fervation is of ufe for under- flan ding the Bible' Hiftory, 10. At is alfo the Jewifh Divflon t>f the Night into Watches, For they always reckoning their firft Hour of the Day from the Sun's Rifing, which at the Equinoxes an- fwers exaftly to our fix a Clock in the Morning, it follows that their firft Hour of the Day muft anfwer at the Equinoxes to our feven a Clock in the Morning 5 and confequently their third Hour to our nine a Clock in the Morning, their fixth to our twelve a Clock at Noon 5 their ninth to our three a Clock in the Afternoon, And although there is not fo exaft a Correfpondence between the Hours ufed by them and us, at other Times of the Year, yet the fore-mentioned Obfervation is of good Ufe for the better Underftanding the fcveral Hours of the Day mentioned in the Sacred Hiftory. Upon the like Account it is not to be here omitted, that the Jews divi¬ ded the Night (not only into twelve Hours, as is afore obferved* but alfo) into four Quarters, called JVatches7 each Watch containing three of their Night-hours. Thefe Watches were diftinguifhed, either by their numeral Order, whence we exprcftly read in the