The mariners magazine [electronic resource] : stor'd with these mathematical arts: The rudiments of navigation and geometry. The making and use of divers mathematical instruments. The doctrine of triangles, plain and spherical. The art of navigation, by the plain-chart, Mercator's-chart, and the arch of a great circle. The art of surveying, gauging, and measuring. Gunnery and artificial fire-works. The rudiments of astronomy. The art of dialling. Also with tables of logarithms, and tables of the suns declination; of the latitude and longitude, right ascension and declination of the most notable fixed stars; of the latitude and longitude of places; of meridional parts. Whereunto are annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by Acts of Parliament, relating to the customs, and to navigation. And, a compendium of fortification. By Capt. Samuel Sturmy

Bib ID:
8273850
Format:
Book
Author:
Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669
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Edition:
The second edition, diligently revised and carefully corrected, by John Colson, teacher of the mathematicks in London.
Description:
  • London : printed by Anne Godbid, for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate near Tower-Hill; Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little-Britain; Robert Boulter, at the Turks-head in Cornhill; Thomas Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; Ralph Smith, at the Bible in the Piazza under the Exchange; and Richard Northcot, next St. Peter's Alley in Cornhill, and at the Anchor and Mariner on Fish-Street-Hill, 1679
  • [32], 200, [6], 143 [i.e. 153], [53], 11, [3], 13, [1] p., plates : ill. (woodcuts)
Series:
Early English books online.
Notes:
  • With an engraved frontispiece, and added engraved title page reading: The mariners magazine or Sturmys Mathematicall and practicall arts.
  • Title page in red and black.
  • With a index and preliminary verses.
  • "A constant kalendar" has separate title page dated 1677; register and pagination are continuous. Books 5-7 of "Sturmy's Mathematical and practical arts" have separate title pages (book 5 is dated 1676, book 7 is dated 1678); pagination and register begin anew (3a1) with the fifth book.
  • "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus: or, A table of artificial sines and tangents to every degree and minute of the quadrant" (unpaginated) has separate title page dated 1677 and separate register.
  • "Chiliades decem logarithmorum, or The logarithmes of all numbers from an unite to 10000" (unpaginated), "A summary of such penalties and forfeitures as are limited and appointed by several Acts of Parliament", "A compendium of fortification" have separate title pages dated 1678; "A summary" and "A compendium" have separate pagination; register is continuous.
  • Page 153 (second count) is misnumbered 143.
  • Reproduction of the original in the Magdalen College Library, Oxford.
Cited In:
Wing (2nd ed.) S6097.
Reproduction:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2002:16)
Subject:
Other authors/contributors:
Colson, John, 1680-1760
Also Titled:
  • Mariners magazine or Sturmys Mathematicall and practicall arts.
  • Sturmys Mathematicall and practicall arts.
  • Constant kalendar.
  • Sturmy's Mathematical and practical arts.
  • Mathematical and practical arts.
  • Table of artificial sines and tangents to every degree and minute of the quadrant.
  • Chiliades decem logarithmorum, or The logarithmes of all numbers from an unite to 10000.
  • Logarithmes of all numbers from an unite to 10000.
  • Summary of such penalties and forfeitures as are limited and appointed by several Acts of Parliament.
  • Compendium of fortification.
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