A new and easy guide to the use of the globes, and the rudiments of geography
Subtitle: 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
By: Daniel Fenning ...
Contributors: Crowder, Stanley, -1798, printer; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifth edition, with large corrections and improvements.
Publisher: Printed for S. Crowder ...
Published: 1785
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Geography; Textbooks; Early works to 1800; Globes
Notes: "Recommended by the Rev. J. Warneford, M.A. and several eminent mathematicians. In this edition are now inserted a view of the Copernican or true system of the universe, and the coelestial globe, neatly engraved."

Signatures: A⁴ B-I¹² K¹²(-K12).

Publisher's advertisement on [1] p. at end.

ESTC (RLIN) N4787

Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation; in ink on t.p.: C. Heydricks.