Astronomia britannica
Subtitle: in qua per novam concinnioremq[ue] methodum, hi quinq[ue] tractatus traduntur: I. Logistica astronomica, quæ continet doctrinam fractionum astronomicarum integram, tùm in numeris naturalibus, tùm artificialibus. II. Trigonometria, seu doctrina triangulorum, (analytica & practica) quæ comprehendit dimensionem omnium trigonorum, tàm planorum, quàm sphæicorum, cujus ope, dimensiones cœli, terræ universiq[ue] mundi orbis (modo mirabili) dignoscantur. III. Doctrina sphærica, quæ exhibet longitudines, latitudines, declinationes, ascensiones, ortus, occasus, intercapedines, parallaxesq[ue] singulorum planetarum ad cujuslibet sphæræ positum, & quo pacto figuræ cœlestes erigi possint. IV. Theoria planetarvm, quæ novâ, accuratâq[ue] methodo super hypothesi copernicanâ, veros motus & configurationes omnium planetarum computare docet. V. Tabvlæ novæ astronomicæ, ex quibus singulorum planetarum motus, & luminarium eclipses, mirâ promptitudine colligantur. Congruentes cum observationibus accuratissimis nobilis Tychonis Brahæi. Cui accessit observationum astrònomicarum Synopsis compendiaria, ex quâ Astronomiæ britannicæ certitudo affatim elucescit ... Cui additur postscriptum de refractione.
By: Authore Vincentio Wing, mathem.
Contributors: Markham, Robert, Sir.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: typis Johannis Macock, impensis Georgii Sawbridge
Published: 1669
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Portrait wanting.
The tables are paged separately.
Books 1-5 have each special t.-p., those of the first three dated 1668.
"Canonum astronomicorum, pars altera," and "Observationum astronomicarum synopsis compendiaria" have each special t.-p., dated 1668.
"De refractione postscriptum Roberti Markham baronetti": [2] p. following p. 244.