The description and use of a quadrant, by which, all the most usefull and necessary propositions of both the globes are easily and exactly performed, as the right ascension, declination, altitude, amplitude, rising, setting, azimuth, and houre of the day. Also of a qvadrat, [sic] by which you may take all manner of heights & distances, as of towers, steeples, &c. And lastly, of a nocturnal; for the ready finding of the houre of the night. Published by J.H. for the use of such as are mathematically affected.

People / Organizations

• J. H. (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for the author, 1665.

Publication year

1665-1665

ESTC No.

R19278

Grub Street ID

77033

Description

[6], 54 p., 1 leaf of folded plates : ill. ; 8⁰

Note

Advertisement: prelim. p. [6].

Identified as Wing H1641 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700".