Download or read book A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie written by Joseph Moxon and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie comprises six parts or 'books'. In the first book, Moxon teaches the rudiments of Ptolemaic astronomy and geography. In the next two books he shows how to use globes to solve many problems in astronomy, geography and navigation. The fourth book teaches how to solve astrological problems, an important subject in Moxon's time but today considered a pseudo-science of little merit. The fifth book deals with what Moxon calls gnomonical problems, that is, by again using the globes, finding the correct hour lines for many different types of sun-dials. The final book applies the globes to the solution of spherical triangles, a necessary skill for mariners practicing the new art of celestial navigation. Knowledge of how to use globes in the solving of all these sorts of problems is a skill now largely forgotten and Moxon's treatise is a valuable historic resource on this account alone. Of course, the work may also be viewed as a simple handbook, produced as an aid to selling the celestial and terrestrial globes which Moxon was busy making and advertising at this time. The treatise has two additional books, the first of which is a retelling of ancient and mythical stories about the origins and naming of certain constellations and stars, or what Moxon calls the 'poetical reasons' why such bodies are placed where they are in the heavens. The second additional book is of particular value today to historians of astronomy, since it is a masterly exposition of the origins and discoveries of astronomy up to the middle of the seventeenth century. It comprises much myth but also a great deal of fact, the whole providing a fascinating glimpse of these matters as understood by our forebears at the dawn of the scientific age.
Download or read book A Tutor To Astronomy and Geography Or an Easie and Speedy Way to Know the Use of Both the Globes Coelestial and Terrestrial written by Joseph Moxon and published by . This book was released on 1686 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie or an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the Globes coelestial and terrestrial in six books Whereunto is added the Ancient Poetical Stories of the Stars Collected from Dr Hood written by Joseph Moxon and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie Or an Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes c lestial and terrestrial The second edition corrected and enlarged Whereunto is added the antient poetical stories of the stars As also a discourse of the antiquity progress and augmentation of astronomie written by Joseph Moxon and published by . This book was released on 1674 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use of the Copernican Spheres written by Joseph Moxon and published by . This book was released on 1665 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Four Centuries of Special Geography written by O.F.G. Sitwell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.
Download or read book The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England written by Jocelyn Hargrave and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely interpreted and adapted the guidelines of these style guides as part of their inherently human editorial practice. Offering a critical mapping of early modern style guides, Jocelyn Hargrave explores when and how style guides originated, how they contributed to the evolution of editorial practice and how they impacted the overall publishing of content.
Download or read book Geography and Revolution written by David N. Livingstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A term with myriad associations, revolution is commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolution examines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutions—Copernican, Newtonian, and Darwinian—ordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutions—the advent of print, time-keeping, and photography—emerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutions—in France, England, Germany, and the United States—are notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolution is an invitation to take the where as seriously as the who and the when in examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.
Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonn of Works on the Occult Sciences written by Frederick Leigh Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonn of Works on the Occult Sciences written by F. Leigh Gardner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single-volume reissue of Gardner's three detailed catalogues (originally published 1903-1912), including the very rare volume on English freemasonry.
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