The Northern images contained in the 12. space.
FIrst, the most part of the former fish of the signe Piscis toge∣ther with part of her band.
Item the necke, body, and wing of Pegasus, otherwise called
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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- 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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- Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.
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- 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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- 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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"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 May 15, 2024.
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Equus Gorgoneus, and Alpharaz, rising out of a cloud, in which cloud is the head of Andromeda, hauing on the right side there∣of a faire starre of the second bignes, and in the right wing of Pegasus is a starre of the second bignes called Marcab Alpha∣raz and on his right shoulder another Starre of the second big∣nesse called Scheat Alpharaz.
Item the right arme and hand of Andromeda holding part of her chaine, in the ring whereof is a Star of the fourth bignes.
Item the left arme of Cepheus.
Item the tip of the little Beares taile, in which is the North starre called Alrucuba of the third bignesse.
The names of the Images contayned in the celestiall globe betwixt the Equinoctiall and the South pole together with so many starres as are named in that part of the globe, begin∣ning as I did before in describing the northern Images at the Vernall Equinoctiall point, and so proceede from space to space contayned betwixt euery two Meridians towardes the right hand.