The [newe attractiue:]
Subtitle: 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.
Contributors: Borough, William, 1536-1599.
Edition: Nevvly corrected and amended by M. WB. 1585.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 198:3.; Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 326:9.; Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 478:5.
Publisher: By T. East, for Richard Ballard
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Geomagnetism -- Early works to 1800.; Nautical astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Compass -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Newe attractive; Newe attractive.
Notes: 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).

STC (2nd ed.) 18648.

Hazlitt, W.C. Hand-book, p. 423.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1944, 1947, 1951. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 198:3, 326:9, 478:5).