| Ref No | EFP/094/A 094/1699/20 |
| Finding Number | A094/1699/20 |
| Title | A tutor to astronomy and geography. Or, an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, c&[hash]0156;lestial and terrestial [sic] : In six books. ... More fully and amply than hath been set forth, either by Gemna [sic] Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the use of the globes: ... With an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere. The fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. By Joseph Moxon. Whereunto is added the antient poetical stories of the stars; shewing reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the c&[hash]0156;lestical globe. As also a discourse of the antiquity, progress, and augmentation of astronomy |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1699 |
| Description | Tutor to astronomie and geographie; Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, colestial and terrestial; Use of the celestial globe in plano; Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Part 2; Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, colestial and terrestrial
With frontis. portrait (plate) of author.; With 4 final contents leaves.; Loosely based on Part 2 of: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon. Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium.; Foxed throughout; 55906.; Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, colestial and terrestial.; Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, colestial and terrestrial.; Microfilm.; R30530. |
| Author | Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691; Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598; Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 |
| Subject | Astronomy; Globes |
| Physical Description | [6], 271, [9] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port., tables ; 4j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : printed for W. Hawes at the Rose in Ludgate-street, 1699. |