Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ...
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- Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ...
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- [Westminster :: Printed by William Caxton,
- 1491]
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Contents
- table of contents - 1
- table of contents - 2
- table of contents - 3
- ¶Prologue declaryng to whom this book apperteyneth /
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part
- ¶Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde. And treateth first of the power and puyssaunce of god / Capitulo primo.
- ¶Wherfor god made and created the world / Capitulo. ij.
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¶Wherfore god fourmed man lyke vn∣to his ymage and to his se∣mblaunce / Capl
o . iij. - ¶Wherfor god made not the man / suche as he myght not synne / Capitulo. iiij.
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¶Wherfor and how the seuen Artes liberall were foūden and of their ordre / Capitulo / v
o . -
¶Of thre maner of people and how clergye cam fyrst in to the royamme of ffraunce / Capitulo vj
o . - ¶Here fo∣loweth of lo¦gyke ca. viij
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¶Hier speketh of Rethoryque. Capitulo / ix
o . -
¶Here foloweth arsmetryque & wherof it procedeth / ca / x
o . -
¶Next foloweth the science of Geometrye / Capitulo / xj
o . -
¶here folowed of musyque. Capitulo / xij
o . -
¶Here speketh of Astronomye. Capitulo. xiij
o . -
¶Here foloweth of nature / how she werketh & what she is ¶Capitulo / xiiij
o . -
¶Of the fourme of the firmament Capitulo / xv
o . -
¶How the four Elementes ben sette / Capitulo / xvj
o . -
¶How the erthe holdeth her right in the myddle of the worlde Capitulo. xvij
o . -
¶What y
e roū¦denes of the er∣the is. ca. xviijo . -
¶Wherfor god made the world al rounde. Capl
o . xixo . -
¶Of the meuynges of heuen and of the vij planetes & of the lytylnes of therthe vnto the regarde of heuen. Capl
o . xx
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part - 2
- ¶Here after bygynneth the seconde partye of this present book. and declareth how therthe is deuyded and what partie she is enhabyted / Capitulo primo.
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¶What par¦te of therthe is in hahyted Capl
o . ijo . -
¶First of paradis terrestre. and of the foure grete flodes that departe fro thens / ¶Capitulo / iij
o . -
¶Here speketh of ynde & of thynges that be found therin / Capitulo iiij
o . -
¶Here foloweth the dyuersitees beyng in y
e lande of Inde Capitulo / vo . -
¶Of the serpentes & of the beestes of Inde / Ca. vj
o . - ¶Here foloweth of precious stones and of their vertue whiche growe in Inde / Capitulo vij
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¶Here foloweth of the contrees and Royames of Inde Capitulo / viij
o . -
¶Hier speketh of the fysshes that be founden in Inde. Capitulo / ix
o . -
¶Here foloweth of the trees that ben in Inde & of their fruytes / Capitulo / x
o . -
Now foloweth of Europe and of his contrees. Ca. xj
o . -
¶ Here foloweth of affryke and of his regyons and con¦trees. Capitulo xij
o . - ¶Here shal we speke of dyuerse Iles of the see / Ca / xiij
- ¶Of dyuersitees that ben in europe & in affryke / ca. xiiij
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¶Of the maner & condycion of beestes of thyse contrees / Capitulo. xv
o . -
¶Of the maner of byrdes of thyse forsayd contrees Capitulo / xvj
o . -
¶Of dyuersytes of somme comyne thynges / Capl
o . xvij -
¶For to knowe where helle stondeth. and what thyng it is Capitulo / xviij
o . -
¶How the watre renneth by & thurghe therthe / Ca xix
o . -
¶How the water swete or salte / hoot or enuenymed sour¦deth out of the erthe. Capitulo xx
o . - ¶Of dyuerse fontaynes and welles that sourde on therthe / Capitulo / xxj
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¶Wherfor and how the erthe quaueth and trembleth Capitulo xxij
o . - ¶How the water of the see becometh salt. Capitulo. xxiij
- ¶Here foloweth of Ayer and of his nature / Ca xxiiij
- ¶How the clowdes & rayn come comynly. Ca. xxv
- ¶Of frostes and snowes / Capitulo. xxvj
- ¶Of haylle and of tempestes / Capitulo. xxvij
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¶Of lyghtnynges and of thondres / Capitulo / xxviij
o . -
¶For to knowe how the wyndes growe & come. ca. xxix
o -
¶Of the fyre and of the sterres that seme to falle / Capitulo. xxx
o . -
¶Of the pure Ayer and how the seuen planetes ben sette / Capitulo. xxxj
o . -
¶How the vij planetes gyue the names to the vij dayes / Capitulo / xxxij
o . -
¶Of the meuyng and goyng aboute of the firmament & of the sterres that ben therin / Capitulo. xxxii
o .
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part - 3
- ¶Here beginneth the thirde parte of this present volume & declareth first how the day & the nyght come / Ca. primo
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¶Why the sterres ben not seen by-day as wel as ay nyght ¶ Capitul
o . ijo . -
¶Wherfor the sonne is not seen by nyght as it is by day Capitulo iij
o . -
¶How the mone receyueth dyuersly her lyght & clerenesse Capitulo. iiij
o . -
¶How the e∣clipses of the mone happen / Capitulo. v
o . -
¶How the Eclypse of the Sonne cometh / Ca. vi
o . -
¶Of the Eclypse that happed atte deth of our lord god Capitulo / vij
o . -
¶ Of the vertu of heuen and of the sterres / Capl
o . viijo . -
¶Wherfore and how they mesured the world / Capl
o . ix -
¶Of the kynge Tholomeus and of somme other philo∣sophers / Capitulo x
o . -
¶How the scryptures & sciences were saued ayenft the flood / Capitulo / xj
o . -
¶ Of them that fonde the science & the clergye after the flood / Capitulo xij
o . -
¶Here folowe in substaunce of the meruaylles that vir∣gyle wrought by Astronomye in his tyme by his wytte Capitulo. xiij
o . -
¶Here declareth for what cause monoye was first esta∣blisshid. Capitulo. xiiij
o . -
¶Here foloweth of phylosophers that wente thurgh the world Capitulo / xv
o . -
¶What thyng is philosophye / and of thanswer that pla∣to made therof. Capitulo. xvj
o . - ¶How moche the erthe is of heyght rounde aboute and of thickenes by the myddle / Capitulo xvij
- ¶How the mone and the sonne haue eche of theym theyr propre heyghte. Capitulo xviij
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¶Here foloweth of the heyght of the sterres and of their gretenesse / Capitulo. xix
o . -
¶Here foloweth of the nombre of sterres. Capitulo. xx
o . -
Of the gretenes of the firmament. and of the heuene whi∣che is a boue yt. Capitulo. xxj
o . - ¶Here after foloweth of the heuen crystalyn and of the heuene imperyall / Capitulo. xxij
- ¶Here foloweth of the Celestyall heuene. Capitulo xxiij
- Her foloweth the recapitulaciō of the thynges tofore sayd Capitulo. xxiiij.
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