A compleat system of general geography
Subtitle: explaining the nature and properties of the earth ...
By: originally written in Latin by Bernhard Varenius ...; since improved and illustrated by Sir Isaac Newton and Dr. Jurin ; and now translated into English, with additional notes, copper-plates, an alphabetical index, and other improvements, particularly useful to students in the universities, travellers, sailors, and all those who desire to be aquainted with mixed mathematics, geography, astronomy, and navigation by Mr. Dugdale ; the whole revised and corrected by Peter Shaw ...; in two volumes.
Contributors: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.; Jurin, James, 1684-1750.; Dugdale, Mr.; Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Edition: The third edition, with large additions.
Publisher: Printed for Stephen Austen ...
Published: 1736
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 898
Subjects: Geography -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Bernhardi Varenii Geographia generalis.
Subtitle: It's figure, magnitude, motions, situation, contents, and division into land and water, mountains, woods, desarts, lakes, rivers, &c. With particular accounts of the different appearances of the heavens in different countries; the seasons of the year all over the globe; the tides of the sea; bays, capes, islands, rocks, sand-banks, and shelves. The state of the atmosphere; the nature of exhalations; winds, storms, tornados, &c. The origin of springs, mineral-waters, burning mountains, mines, &c. The uses and making of maps, globes, and sea charts. The foundations of dialling; the art of measuring heights and distances; the art of ship-building, navigation, and ways of finding the longitude at sea.
Vol. 1: xxiv, 528 p., [1], VII leaves of plates; v. 2: xvi, [529]-898, [14] p., leaves of plates VIII-XI.