M. Blundevile his exercises
Subtitle: containing sixe treatises ... verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ...
Contributors: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.; Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622.; Blagrave, John, d. 1611.; Windet, John, d. 1610, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by John Windet ...
Published: 1594
Place of publication: London
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: STC (2nd ed.) 3146
RLIN CSHRB15078528B
Each pt., except "Of arithmetike," has special t.p.
Signatures: A-2X⁸ 2Y⁶. A1 blank, except for signature mark.
LC copy imperfect: signature A1 and 1 folded leaf of plates wanting. Description of signature A1, and number of folded leaves of plates from Huntington Library copy in RLIN.
Table of contents: title: Of arithmetike; title: A briefe description of the tables of the three speciall right lines belonging to a circle, called sines, lines tangent, and lines secant; title: A plaine treatise of the first principles of cosmographie, and specially of the spheare ...; title: A plaine description of Mercator his two globes, that is to say, of the terrestriall globe and of the celestiall globe ...; title: A plaine and full description of Petrus Plancius his vniuersall map; title: - A very brief and most plaine description of Maister Blagraue his astrolabe; title: - A nevv and necessarie treatise of nauigation ...