The [newe attractiue:] contain[ing a short discourse] of the magnes or [loadstone, and amongst other his] vertues, of a new dis[couered, secret and subtill pro]pertie, concerning [the declining of the] needle, touched there[with vnder the] plaine of the horizo[n.] Now first found out by Robert Norman, hydrographer. Heereunto are annexed certaine necessarie rules for the art of nauigation, by the same R.N.
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- The [newe attractiue:] contain[ing a short discourse] of the magnes or [loadstone, and amongst other his] vertues, of a new dis[couered, secret and subtill pro]pertie, concerning [the declining of the] needle, touched there[with vnder the] plaine of the horizo[n.] Now first found out by Robert Norman, hydrographer. Heereunto are annexed certaine necessarie rules for the art of nauigation, by the same R.N.
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Imprinted at London: By T. East, for Richard Ballard, 1585.
- Publication year
- 1585-1585
- ESTC No.
- S113260
- Grub Street ID
- 133000
- Description
- [10], 28, [118] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4⁰
- Note
- W.B. = William Borough.
Title page of catalogued copy mutilated; missing text supplied from Hazlitt.
"A discourse of the variation of the cumpas, or magneticall needle" by Borough, signed A-G? H?, has separate dated divisional title.
"A discourse of the variation of the cumpas" identified as STC 3390 on UMI microfilm reel 198; leaf ?B1 identified as STC 17184 on reel 478.
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- Rpm 12/04/96