A tutor to astronomy and geography. Or, an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial 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 coelestical globe. As also a discourse of the antiquity, progress, and augmentation of astronomy

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  • A tutor to astronomy and geography. Or, an easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial 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 coelestical globe. As also a discourse of the antiquity, progress, and augmentation of astronomy
  • Tutor to astronomie and geographie
  • Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestial; Easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial
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Imprint
London : printed for W. Hawes at the Rose in Ludgate-street, 1699.
Added name
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638. Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Part 2.; Hood, Thomas, active 1582-1598. Use of the celestial globe in plano.
Publication year
1699
ESTC No.
R30530
Grub Street ID
113368
Description
[6], 271, [9] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port., tables ; 4°.
Note
With frontis. portrait (plate) of author

With four final contents leaves

Loosely based on Part 2 of: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon. Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium.