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
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.
References note
Wing W2986
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