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.
  • Newe attractive Newe attractive
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Imprint
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.
Uncontrolled note
Rpm 12/04/96