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Blagrave, John. The mathematical ievvel : 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: ... The vse of which iewel, is so aboundant and ample, that it leadeth any man practising thereon, the direct pathway ... through the whole artes of astronomy, cosmography, ... and briefely of whatsoeuer concerneth the globe or sphere: ... The most part newly founde out by the author, compiled and published ... by Iohn Blagraue of Reading gentleman and well willer to the mathematickes, who hath cut all the prints or pictures of the whole worke with his owne hands. 1585

Creator
Blagrave, John, -1611
Date
[1585]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
STC 3119
Caption
Imprinted at London : By Walter Venge, dwelling in Fleetelane ouer against the Maiden head, [1585]
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Tapp, John. The sea-mans kalender: or, An ephemerides of the sun, moon, and certain of the most notable fixed stars. : As also a table of the longitude and latitude of all the most eminent places of the world: first calculated by John Tap. Since corrected and inlarged, with many additions. viz. New exact tables of the north-star, new tables of 65 of the principal fixed stars; their time of coming upon the meridian every day, with their right ascension and declination, &c. With the discovery of a way to finde the long hidden secret of longitude, by Henry Bond, teacher of the mathematicks in the Bulwark near the Tower: all which are now newly calculated and corrected, and many rules and tables added, by Henry Phillippes, philo-nauticus

Creator
Tapp, John, active 1596-1615
Date
1664
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
T161.2
Caption
London : Printed by Will. Leybourn, fo: [sic] George Hurlock, and are to be sould at his shop at Magnus Church-corner in Thames street, 1664
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Blagrave, John. The mathematical ievvel 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: ... The vse of which iewel, is so aboundant and ample, that it leadeth any man practising thereon, the direct pathway ... through the whole artes of astronomy, cosmography, ... and briefely of whatsoeuer concerneth the globe or sphere: ... The most part newly founde out by the author, compiled and published ... by Iohn Blagraue of Reading gentleman and well willer to the mathematickes, who hath cut all the prints or pictures of the whole worke with his owne hands. 1585

Creator
Blagrave, John, -1611
Date
[1585]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
FILM Acc. 626; For access, follow the Linked Resources hyperlink
Caption
Early English books, 1475-1640
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