A new and easy guide to the use of the globes, and the rudiments of geography : wherein the knowledge of the heavens and earth is made easy to the meanest capacity : first, by giving a concise account of the four quarters of the world, with the distance and situation of the principal islands and inland places : and secondly, by the solution of upwards of seventy useful problems in geography, astronomy, navigation, and dialling : in which are inserted, three useful tables : I. shews the latitude of the principal places and their longitude from the meridian of London : II. shews the sun's place, declination, time of rising and setting, length of days and nights, and beginning and ending of twilight every week, according to the new style : III. shews the latitude, longitude, right ascension, and declination of the most eminent fixed stars : to the whole are subjoined : I. an appendix, containing a short account of the solar system, and of the comets and fixed stars : II. A supplement, exhibiting a brief view of the figure and magnitude of the earth, of the nature of the atmosphere, of the theory of the tides, and a concise system of chronology /