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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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 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.
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The Magnitude of the STARS, with their Pro∣portions
to the Earth.
THe Magnitude of the Stars appears by
comparing the one with the other; for
those of the first Maguitude are most considerable, [ 30]
and give a greater Light than those of the se∣cond,
and those of the second more than those of
the third, and so on.
The Magnitude of the Stars compared to
that of the Earth bears this proportion; Those
of the first Magnitude are 107 times greater than
the Earth, those of the second 90, those of the
third 72, those of the fourth 54, those of the
fifth 36, and those of the sixth 18 times bigger
than the Earth. [ 40]
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