The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

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Title: The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Author: Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
Publication: London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,; 1686.
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Subject terms: Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.; Sports -- Great Britain.; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.; Science -- Early works to 1800.; Hunting -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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The Substance and Motion of the Stars.

PHilosophers are of Opinion, that the Stars are of the same Substance with the Hea∣vens, in which they are, yet differ as to their thickness of Body, being thereby capable to receive and retain their borrowed Light of the Sun, and by that means become visible unto us in the Nights, when the Light of the Sun is de∣parted from our Horizon.

These fixed Stars have no other Motion than the Heaven in which they are placed; yet sometimes seem nearer the Meridian than at other times, and the reason is, because of the several Motions of the Firmament, in which they are placed. But the Planets change their place; yet not by their own Motions, but only through the Motion of the Heaven, in which they are fixed.