The [newe attractiue:] : contain[ing a short discourse] of the magnes or [loadstone, and amongst other his] vertues, of a new dis[couered, secret and subtill pro]pertie, concerning [the declining of the] needle, touched there[with vnder the] plaine of the horizo[n.] Now first found out by Robert Norman, hydrographer. Heereunto are annexed certaine necessarie rules for the art of nauigation, by the same R.N.
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| Language: | English |
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By T. East, for Richard Ballard,
1585.
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| Edition: | Nevvly corrected and amended |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | W.B. = William Borough. Title page of catalogued copy mutilated; missing text supplied from Hazlitt. "A discourse of the variation of the cumpas, or magneticall needle" by Borough, signed A-G⁴ H² , has separate dated divisional title. "A discourse of the variation of the cumpas" identified as STC 3390 on UMI microfilm reel 198; leaf ¹B1 identified as STC 17184 on reel 478. Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Appears at reel 198 (British Library copy), at reel 326 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy) and at reel 478 (British Library copy). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([10], 28, [118] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) |