Astronomia Britannica : in qua per novam, concinnioremq[ue] methodum hi quinq[ue] tractatus traduntur / authore Vincentio Wing.
- Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668
- Date:
- 1669
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Londini : Typis Johannis Macock : Impensis Georgii Sawbridge ..., 1669.
Physical description
18 unnumbered pages, 244 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 369, that is, 371 pages : illustrations
Contributors
References note
Wing W2986
Notes
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library
"Cui accessit observationum astronomicarum synopsis compendiaria, ex quâ astronomiæ Britannicæ certitudo affatim elucescit. Opus exoptatum non modò astronomis, astrologis, sed & theologis, historiographis, nautis, medicis & poetis, perutile & jucundum. Cui additur postscriptum De refractione."
Divided into five books, each with separate t.p.; books 1-3 dated 1668, books 4-5 dated 1669.
"De refractione postscriptum Roberti Markham Baronetti" [2] p. following p. 244.
Contents
(from t.p.): I. Logistica astronomica ... -- II. Trigonometria, seu, Doctrina triangulorum ... -- III. Doctrina sphærica ... -- IV. Theoria planetarum ... -- V. Tabulæ novæ astronomicæ ... congruentes cum observationibus accuratissimis nobilis Tychonis Brahæi.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 992:2) s1999 miun s