The mathematical iewel, : shewing the making, and most excellent vse of a singuler instrument so called: in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoeuer is to be done, either by quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder, ring, dyall, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe, or any such like heretofore deuised: yea or by most tables commonly extant: and that generally to all places from pole to pole. The vse of which iewel, is so aboundant and ample, that it leadeth any man practising thereon, the direct pathway (from the first steppe to the last) through the whole artes of astronomy, cosmography, geography, topography, nauigation, longitudes of regions, dyalling, sphericall triangles, setting figures, and briefely of whatsoeuer concerneth the globe or sphere: with great and incredible speede, plainenesse, facilitie, and pleasure: the most part newly founde out by the author, compiled and published for the furtherance, as well of gentlemen and others desirous of speculatiue knowledge, and priuate practise: as also for the furnishing of such worthy mindes, nauigators, and traueylers, that pretend long voyages or new discoueries: /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blagrave, John, d. 1611
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [London] : Imprinted at London by Walter Venge, dwelling in Fleetelane ouer against the Maiden head., [1585]
Series:Early English books online.
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Item Description:Head-piece, initials.
Fragments: items at reel E1:1[29d, 30a], and [204], leaf [par]2 only; reels E4 and E9, leaves H3v-H4r not filmed.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([2+] pages)