M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme.

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Title: M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme.
Author: Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.
Publication: London :: Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe of the crosse Keies, neere Paules wharffe, and are there to be solde,; 1594.
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Subject terms: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.; Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622.; Blagrave, John, d. 1611.; Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.; Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.; Early maps -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "M. Blundevile his exercises containing sixe treatises, the titles wherof are set down in the next printed page: which treatises are verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie, and geographie, as also in the arte of navigation ... To the furtherance of which arte of navigation, the said M. Blundevile speciallie wrote the said treatises and of meere good will doth dedicate the same to all the young gentlemen of this realme." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16221.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.

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A briefe declaration of the diuision, forme or shape, and of the particularities of the world.

The Contents of the first page.

THat the earth and the water doe make both to∣gether one rounde bodie, which the Cosmogra∣phers doe inuiron with fiue Circles, that is the Equinoctiall, the two Tropiques, and the two Polar Circles, and thereby doe deuide the worlde into fiue Zones, two colde, two tem∣perate, and one extreme hotte: and though that the auncient Geographers doe affirme that thrée of those Zones were vn∣habitable, the one for extremitie of heate, and the other two for extremitie of colde, yet within these hundred yeares last past

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it is knowne by good experience that those thrée Zones are well inhabited as the manifolde Countryes therein placed and great∣ly replenished with people of sundry languages doe well testifie, of all which thinges I haue written at large in my Spheare. And therefore I make this page the shorter.