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Book Tractatus de globis et eorum usu  A Treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux

Download or read book Tractatus de globis et eorum usu A Treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux written by Clements R. Markham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is edited, with 'Annotated Indices and an Introduction'. In addition to the treatise, the volume contains 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS' which originally appeared as Volume 79(b) in the series. The two sets of directions were originally bound together but separately paginated. The first contains the text of the 1638 English translation, A learned treatise of globes by John Chilmead (but 'usually attributed to Edmund Chilmead with apparent corrections'); the title-page of the Latin original is dated 1594. The 'Sailing Directions' are edited, with an account of the MS., by James Gairdner; with a Glossary by Edward Delmar Morgan. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1889.

Book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu

Download or read book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu written by Robert Hues and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1889) contains directions for using Molyneux's globes in calculating navigational points.

Book The Practical Renaissance

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  • Author : Donna A. Seger
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-02-10
  • ISBN : 1350200220
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Practical Renaissance written by Donna A. Seger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the diffusion and reception of prescriptive publications over the 16th and 17th centuries. Published in an age of dynamic religious and political change, these texts demonstrate the universal desire for health and wealth, a fortified body and an orderly household. Showing how classical and continental information had been "Englished" over time, this book shows how new publications supplanted these traditional ideas with more empirical and authoritative knowledge. Published in an age of dynamic religious and political change, these texts, which include plague tracts, husbandry handbooks, printed recipe books, and navigation manuals, demonstrate the universal desire for health and wealth, a fortified body and an orderly household. Divided into three parts, the opening chapters explore factors which affected the diffusion of practical knowledge via prescriptive texts. Part two focuses on the interaction between new discoveries and traditional authority, and the final section considers debates in the 'medical marketplace', the term 'knowledge-mongerer' and the commodification of knowledge at this time. A thorough exploration into the popular and pragmatic expressions of the period, The Practical Renaissance offers a new window into the movement in which knowledge and information became power.

Book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes  Vol  1 2

Download or read book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol 1 2 written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents one of the very first detailed and comprehensive historical treatises on globes terrestrial and celestial in English language since the numerous works published before its appearance tended to give only a very general consideration to the uses of globes, including a reference to their important structural features, and to the problems geographical and astronomical in the solution of which they may be counted of service. The aim of this study was to treat the subject historically, beginning with the earliest references to the belief in a spherical earth and a spherical firmament encircling it, and it was inspired by the author's hope that the preliminary study may lead to a number of independent and thorough investigations of important individual examples, to the end of clearly setting forth their great documentary value._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity_x000D_ Celestial Globes in Antiquity_x000D_ Globes Constructed by the Arabs_x000D_ Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in the Christian Middle Ages_x000D_ Globes Constructed in the Early Years of the Great Geographical Discoveries_x000D_ Globes of the Early Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Globes of the Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Third Quarter of the Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Early Seventeenth Century. The Dutch Scientific Masters and Their Preeminent Leadership_x000D_ Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century – from Delisle to Ferguson_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century_x000D_ The Technic of Globe Construction – Materials and Methods

Book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes

Download or read book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu

Download or read book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu written by Robert Hues and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Terrestrial   Celestial Globes

Download or read book Terrestrial Celestial Globes written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents one of the very first detailed and comprehensive historical treatises on globes terrestrial and celestial in English language since the numerous works published before its appearance tended to give only a very general consideration to the uses of globes, including a reference to their important structural features, and to the problems geographical and astronomical in the solution of which they may be counted of service. The aim of this study was to treat the subject historically, beginning with the earliest references to the belief in a spherical earth and a spherical firmament encircling it, and it was inspired by the author's hope that the preliminary study may lead to a number of independent and thorough investigations of important individual examples, to the end of clearly setting forth their great documentary value. Volume 1: Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity Celestial Globes in Antiquity Globes Constructed by the Arabs Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in the Christian Middle Ages Globes Constructed in the Early Years of the Great Geographical Discoveries Globes of the Early Sixteenth Century Globes of the Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the Third Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Volume 2: Globes and Globe Makers of the Early Seventeenth Century. The Dutch Scientific Masters and Their Preeminent Leadership Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century – from Delisle to Ferguson Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century The Technic of Globe Construction – Materials and Methods

Book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu

Download or read book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu written by Robert Hues and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II

Download or read book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II by Edward Luther Stevenson

Book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu

Download or read book Tractatus de Globis Et Eorum Usu written by Robert Hues and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amerasia

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  • Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-05
  • ISBN : 1942130848
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book Amerasia written by Elizabeth Horodowich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492. Through an array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and 1700, this compelling and revelatory study immerses the reader in a vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was marked by a variety of biblical and Asian sites. It asks, further: What does it mean that the Amerasian worldview predominated at a time when Europe itself was coming into cultural self-definition? Each of the chapters focuses on a particular artifact, map, image, or book that illuminates aspects of Amerasia from specific European cultural milieus. Amerasia shows how it was possible to inhabit a world where America and Asia were connected either imaginatively when viewed from afar, or in reality when traveling through the newly encountered lands. Readers will learn why early modern maps regularly label Mexico as India, why the “Amazonas” region was named after a race of Asian female warriors, and why artifacts and manuscripts that we now identify as Indian and Chinese are entangled in European collections with what we now label Americana. Elizabeth Horodowich and Alexander Nagel pose a dynamic model of the world and of Europe’s place in it that was eclipsed by the rise of Eurocentric colonialist narratives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To rediscover this history is an essential part of coming to terms with the emergent polyfocal global reality of our own time.

Book Indian Antiquary

Download or read book Indian Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At a time when each Society had its own medium of propogation of its researches ... in the form of Transactions, Proceedings, Journals, etc., a need was strongly felt for bringing out a journal devoted exclusively to the study and advancement of Indian culture in all its aspects. [This] encouraged Jas Burgess to launch the 'Indian antiquary' in 1872. The scope ... was in his own words 'as wide as possible' incorporating manners and customs, arts, mythology, feasts, festivals and rites, antiquities and the history of India ... Another laudable aim was to present the readers abstracts of the most recent researches of scholars in India and the West ... 'Indian antiquary' also dealt with local legends, folklore, proverbs, etc. In short 'Indian antiquary' was ...entirely devoted to the study of MAN - the Indian - in all spheres ... " -- introduction to facsimile volumes, published 1985.

Book Tractatus de globis et eorum usu

Download or read book Tractatus de globis et eorum usu written by Robert Hues and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tractatus De Globis Et Eorum Usu: A Treatise Descriptive of the Globes Constructed by Emery Molyneux, and Published in 1592 Englishmen were coming to the front rank as discoverers and explorers, and it naturally followed that maps and globes should be prepared by their countrymen at home, which should alike record the work already achieved and be useful for the guid ance of future navigators. But the construction of globes entailed considerable expense, and there was need for liberal patronage to enable scientific men to enter upon such undertakings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Beyond the Learned Academy

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  • Author : Philip Beeley
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-01-05
  • ISBN : 0198863950
  • Pages : 513 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Learned Academy written by Philip Beeley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Round About the Earth

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  • Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-11-19
  • ISBN : 1416596208
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

Book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: