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Record Nr.

UNISA996390445903316

Autore

Cortés Martín <1532-1589.>

Titolo

The arte of nauigation [[electronic resource] ] : Contayning a breife description of the spheare, vvith the partes and circles of the same: as also the making and vse of certaine instruments. Very necessarie for all sortes of sea-men to vnderstand. First written in Spanish by Martin Curtis, and translated into English by Richard Eden: and lastly corrected and augmented, with a regiment or table of declination, and diuers other necessary tables and rules of common nauigation. Calculated (this yeare 1596. being leap yeare) by I.T

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : By Edw. Allde for Hugh Astley, by the assignes of Richard Watkins, and are to be solde at Sainct Magnus corner, 1596

Descrizione fisica

[6], 90 [i.e. 88], [2] leaves, plate : map, ill. (woodcuts)

Altri autori (Persone)

EdenRichard <1521?-1576.>

TappJohn <fl. 1596-1615.>

Soggetti

Navigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation of: Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar.

I.T. = John Tapp.

The first leaf is blank.

Leaf 88 misnumbered 90.

Some of the diagrams have movable dials.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113