The mariner's magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts : containing, the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler that resolves most mathematical conclusions : and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea : a new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... : the art of gauging all sorts of vessels, and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, cielings, and tylings : the art of gunnery ... astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation : the art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... : whereunto is annexed an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed relating to the customs and navigation : also a compen / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.
Published / Created:
London : Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock, W. Fisher, E. Thomas, and D. Page, and are to be sold at their shops over against St. Magnus Church, near London-bridge, at the Postern-gate neer Tower-hill, at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, and at the Anchor and Mariner in East-Smithfield, 1669.
Physical Description:
[34], 219 [i.e. 223], [7], 132, [6], 52, [52], 11, [3], 13 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : port, ill. ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:739463
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Added engraved t.p.
Subject Terms:
Cotes, E. -- Printer | Hurlock, G. -- Publisher | Fisher, W. -- Publisher | Page, D. -- Publisher | Navigation -- Early works to 1800. | Surveying -- Early works to 1800. | Gunnery -- Early works to 1800. | Fireworks -- Early works to 1800. | Fortification -- Early works to 1800. | Sundials. | Military art and science -- Early works to 1800. | Spherical astronomy -- Early works to 1800. | Toy and movable books -- Specimens.
