M. Blundevile, his exercises containing sixe treatises
By: [by] M. Blundevile.
Series: The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile,; no. 361
Publisher: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Da Capo Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.; Trigonometry -- Tables.; Early maps.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Early works to 1900.; Tables.
Notes: Original ed. has imprint: London, Printed by J. Windet, dwelling at the signe of the crosse Keies, neere Paules wharf, and are there to be solde, 1594.
STC no. 3146.
Each treatise, except that on arithmetic, has special t.p.; the tables, appended to the treatise on arithmetic, also have special t.p.
Table of contents: title: Of arithmetike. [To which is added: A briefe description of the tables of the three speciall right lines belonging to a circle, called sines, lines tangent, and lines secant ... written ... 1593. A plaine treatise of the first principles of cosmographie, and specially of the spheare, representing the shape of the whole world ... 1594.; title: A plaine description of Mercator his two globes, that is to say, of the terrestriall globe and of the celestiall globe and of eyther of them: together with the most necessary uses thereof.; title: A plaine and full description of Petrus Plancius his universall map, serving both for sea and land, and by him ... put foorth in ... 1592.; title: A very brief and most plaine description of Maister Blagrave his astrolabe, which he calleth the Mathematicall jewell.; title: A new and necessarie treatise of navigation containing all the chiefest principles of that arte.