15 results filtered with: Heath, Robert, d. 1779.
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The British palladium; or, Annual miscellany: for the bissextile year 1768 . Containing annual and useful tables, and entertaining and interesting subjects in literature and science. With remarks on the nautical ephemeris, and the joint effect of refraction and parallax determined, for finding the longitude. Serving for land and sea. The twentieth number published. Humbly inscribed to the commissioners of longitude. By the author of The improv'd royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- E-books
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A natural and historical account of the islands of Scilly describing their situation, number, extent, Soil, Culture, Produce, Rarities, Towns, Fortifications, Trade, Manufacture, Inhabitants. Their government, laws, customs, Grants, Records, and Antiquities. The Importance of those Islands to the British Trade and Navigation; the Improvements they are capable of; and Directions for all Ships to avoid the Dangers of their Rocks. Illustrated with a new and correct draught of those isles from an actual Survey, in the Year 1744, including the neighbouring Seas, and Sea-Coasts, next the Land's End of Cornwall. To which are added, The Tradition of a Tract of Land, called Lioness, devoured by the Sea, formerly joining those Isles and Cornwall. Of the Cause, Rise, and Disappearance of some Islands. And, lastly, a general account of Cornwall. By Robert Heath, an Officer of his Majesty's Forces, some Time in Garrison, at Scilly.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- E-books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium for the year of Our Lord 1751 . Containing A royal-diary, or Ephemeris; new ænigmas, queries, mathematical questions, paradoxes, and answers to the last proprs'd; with an insallible receipt to make a modern mathematician. Original essays in prose and verse; pandæmon, on the Devil's wedding, a new cure for a scold, the ladies vindication, and letter form dagal hal-lagal, emperor of the moon, concerning the government of Jupiter the doctrine and application of morality. With which may he had a French almanack, vocabulary, and rudiments, to facilitate the knowledge of the French tongue. Of general use and enterainment, more especially for the instruction of youth. Being the third number publish'd of this kind. By the Author of The lady's diary.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: [1751]- E-books
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Palladium, 1761. Additional ephemeris for Greenwich-observatory
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The British palladium or annual miscellany of literature and science: for the leap-year 1776. The twenty-eighth number published. In Two Parts. The First containing new, general, and select, Subjects. The Rudiments of Geography: With the Situation, Extent, Produce, Customs, Curiosities, &c. of Countries; to be hereafter continued: Being a natural and bistorical Account of our terraqueous Globe. The Second comprehending Answers to former Enquiries; and a Variety of new and entertaining Things proposed. With which may be had, The Practical Arithmetician, or Art of Numbers improved: Being a Set of new, short, practical, and mechanical, Rules, in all the Branches of Arithmetic, on an entirely new Plan; exercising all Parts of the numerical Art with Readiness and Facility. For the Use of Schools and private Tutors. Also The Seaman's Guide, or a Key to the Nautical Ephemerides, for keeping a Reckoning of Longitude of Ships at Sea, from Observation, as near as is practical. - The Whole serving both for Land and Sea. By the author of The improved royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: [1776]- E-books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium for the year of Our Lord 1750 . Containing new ænigmas, queries, fables, tales, rebus's, epigrams, allusions, and eiptaphs; new arichmetical and mathematical questions and paradoxes, proposed in several branches of science. Also, answers to the last year's ænigmas, questions, queries, and paradoxes; a moral euclid, and improvements on Dr. Halley's astronomical tables, lately published. Of general use and entertainment; more especially for the instruction of youth. To which is added, A royal diary, or Ephemeris, with wonderful perdictions of furture events. By the Author of The ladies diary.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: [1750]- E-books
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The practical arithmetician: or Art of numbers improved . Exhibiting a new method of learning the most useful branches of arithmetic, perfectly, in the shortest time; by a succession of plain, easy, short, improved, mechanical, and direct, rules. For the use of schools and private tutors. Without the great hindrance and loss of time to learners, by being put backward and forward under different instructors. Since the first small work was proposed, at a small price, the work is enlarged and improved into a complete treatise on all the useful and curious subjects of arithmetic, to make it a most perfect work of its kind. By the Palladium-Author, junior.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: 1774- E-books
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The British palladium or, annual miscellany of literature and science: for the year 1771. The first part consisting of new and select subjects, of general utility. The second part containing answers to the former year's useful enquiries; with new and curious enquiries proposed for the present year. For the use of gentlemen and ladies, youth at school, and navigators. Serving both for land and sea. The twenty-third number published. Which may be had, The seaman's guide to the longitude, or key to the nautical ephemeris, just published. By the author of the improved Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCLXXI. MDCCLXXI. [1771]- E-books
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The gentleman and lady's diary and palladium, for the year of Our Lord, 1757 . Containing, new improvements in science. A perpetual diary, for new and old stile; a royal chronologer, or Memorandum of the holidays, remarkable days, &c. For 1757; and a radical diary, (1756) serving for perpetuity.-new astronomical tables of the mean motions of the sun and moon, and equation tables, for readily finding the places and eclipses of those luminaries. A new and correct roster-general, for proportioning the duties of an army.-remarks on the late bishop of Clyone's principles of human knowledge, &c. The ninth number published. Humbly inscribed to the Royal Society. By the Late Author of The ladies diary.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- E-books
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The British palladium or, annual miscellany of literature and science: for the year 1770. The first part consisting of new and select subjects, of general utility. The second part containing answers to the former year's useful enquiries; with new and curious enquiries proposed for the present year. For the use of gentlemen and ladies, youth at school, and also navigators. Serving both for land and sea. The twenty second number published. Being a connexion, and fit to be bound with, The nautical ephemeris, and its key, for 1770. By the author of the improved and perpetual Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCLXX. MDCCLXX. [1770]- E-books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium , for the year of our Lord, 1758. ... The tenth number publish'd. ... By the late author of the Ladies diary.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: 1758- E-books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium and diary, for the year of our Lord 1756. Containing, (besides what is usual,) many new improvements in science, on a plan quite new: particularly, perpetual astronomical and chronological tables; by which the moon's age, and place, for any month and day in the year for ever, are known at sight; and likewise the sun's place, time of high water at London, and moon's rising and setting for the same time. The discovery of the longitude, reduced to practice, by observation of the moon; according to the method first pointed out by the late celebrated astronomer royal, Dr. Edmund Halley. The eighth number published. Aut disce aut discere. - Humbly inscribed to the Royal Society. By the late author of The ladies diary.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- E-books
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A supplement to the royal astronomer and navigator . Supplying (by reduction and equation) accurate astronomical tables; tabulædunelmenses, greenovicenses, &c. With a general and accurate solution of the longitude problem, or the effect of parallax and refraction, in distance, truly determined. Compared with the solutions of the same problem, in the nautical almanac and ephemeris, for finding the longitude at sea. By R. Heath, author of the Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, d. 1779.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- E-books
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The Palladium; or, Appendix to the ladies diary
Date: [1748]- E-books
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The ladies diary or, woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1752. Being bissextile, or leap-year, of 355 days only[,] and the first year corrected to solar time, and the general date of all Europe. Containing an improvement of arts and sciences, for the use and pleasure of the fair-sex. Being the forty ninth almanack publish'd of this kind.
Date: 1752