The mathematicall jewell / John Blagrave

Bib ID:
1299572
Format:
Book
Author:
Blagrave, John, -1611
Uniform Title:
Mathematical jewel
Edition:
[Facsim. ed.]
Description:
  • Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; New York : Da Capo Press, 1971
  • [18], [2, folded leaves],124 p. : ill. fascims.(woodcuts), 31 cm.
ISBN:
9022102947
Series:
English experience : its record in early printed books published in facsimile ; no. 294
Notes:
  • Originally published: " Imprinted at London by Walter Venge, dwelling in Fleetelane ouer against the Maiden head, 1585."
  • Fascim. t. p.: " The mathematical ievvel, shewing the making, and most excellent vse of a singuler instrument so called: in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoeuer is to be done, either by quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder, ring, dyall, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe, or any such like heretofore deuised:... The vse of which iewel, is so aboundant and ample, that it leadeth any man practising thereon, the direct pathway ... through the whole artes of astronomy, cosmography, ... and briefely of whatsoeuer concerneth the globe or sphere: ... The most part newly founde out by the author, compiled and published ... by Iohn Blagraue of Reading gentleman and well willer to the mathematickes, who hath cut all the prints or pictures of the whole worke with his owne hands. 1585. Imprinted at London by Walter Venge, dwelling in Fleetelane ouer against the Maiden head."
  • Page 60 omitted and page 62 repeated in paging.
Cited In:
S.T.C., No. 3119
Reproduction:
Facsimile reproduction. Bodleian Library's copy (Shelfmark: Ashm.F.7.(2)) and leaves [ ] 1, D1, G2r, N1r (Shelfmark: LE.28.5.) from the Syndics of Cambridge University Library's copy.
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