The mariners magazine : stor'd with these mathematical arts: The rudiments of navigation and geometry. The making and use of divers mathematical instruments. The doctrine of triangles, plain and spherical. The art of navigation, by the plain-chart, Mercator's-chart, and the arch of a great circle. The art of surveying, gauging, and measuring. Gunnery and artificial fire-works. The rudiments of astronomy. The art of dialling. Also with tables of logarithms, and tables of the suns declination; of the latitude and longitude, right ascension and declination of the most notable fixed stars; of the latitude and longitude of places; of meridional parts. Whereunto are annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by Acts of Parliament, relating to the customs, and to navigation. And, a compendium of fortification. By Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

Author/creator Sturmy, Samuel
Other author Colson, John, 1680-1760.
Format Electronic
EditionThe second edition, diligently revised and carefully corrected, by John Colson, teacher of the mathematicks in London.
Publication InfoLondon : printed by Anne Godbid, for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate near Tower-Hill; Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little-Britain; Robert Boulter, at the Turks-head in Cornhill; Thomas Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; Ralph Smith, at the Bible in the Piazza under the Exchange; and Richard Northcot, next St. Peter's Alley in Cornhill, and at the Anchor and Mariner on Fish-Street-Hill, 1679.
Description[32], 200, [6], 143 [i.e. 153], [53], 11, [3], 13, [1] p., plates : ill. (woodcuts)
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Variant title Mariners magazine or Sturmys Mathematicall and practicall arts.
Variant title Sturmys Mathematicall and practicall arts.
Variant title Constant kalendar.
Variant title Sturmy's Mathematical and practical arts.
Variant title Mathematical and practical arts.
Variant title Table of artificial sines and tangents to every degree and minute of the quadrant.
Variant title Chiliades decem logarithmorum, or The logarithmes of all numbers from an unite to 10000.
Variant title Logarithmes of all numbers from an unite to 10000.
Variant title Summary of such penalties and forfeitures as are limited and appointed by several Acts of Parliament.
Variant title Compendium of fortification.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteWith an engraved frontispiece, and added engraved title page reading: The mariners magazine or Sturmys Mathematicall and practicall arts.
General noteTitle page in red and black.
General noteWith a index and preliminary verses.
General note"A constant kalendar" has separate title page dated 1677; register and pagination are continuous. Books 5-7 of "Sturmy's Mathematical and practical arts" have separate title pages (book 5 is dated 1676, book 7 is dated 1678); pagination and register begin anew (3a1) with the fifth book.
General note"Canon triangulorum logarithmicus: or, A table of artificial sines and tangents to every degree and minute of the quadrant" (unpaginated) has separate title page dated 1677 and separate register.
General note"Chiliades decem logarithmorum, or The logarithmes of all numbers from an unite to 10000" (unpaginated), "A summary of such penalties and forfeitures as are limited and appointed by several Acts of Parliament", "A compendium of fortification" have separate title pages dated 1678; "A summary" and "A compendium" have separate pagination; register is continuous.
General notePage 153 (second count) is misnumbered 143.
General noteReproduction of the original in the Magdalen College Library, Oxford.
References Wing (2nd ed.) S6097.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2002:16)
Other title Canon triangulorum logarithmicus: or, A table of artificial sines and tangents to every degree and minute of the quadrant.
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