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.
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London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,
1686.
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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 4, 2024.
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To find out the Altitude or Elevation of the Sun,
or any other Star every Hour.
USe either the Astronomical Quadrant, or the
Astrolabe rightly disposed. Direct the Di∣optra
towards the Object, or receive through its [ 50]
Pins the Radius; then you will see how many
Degrees the Dioptra cuts, by reckoning them
from the Horizontal side.
Note, first, That the greatest Elevation or Al∣titude
of the Sun, or any Star is Meridian,
that is, when it comes to the Meridian, or
Mid-Circles of Heaven. Secondly, That the
Altitude of the said Star is either greater or lesser,
according as it is in that part of the Meridian,
which is more or less distant from the Horizon. [ 60]
But for the finding out this Meridian Altitude of
the Sun, or Stars, let the Meridian Line be rightly
drawn in any Horizontal Plain, by the help
whereof the Meridian Constellation may exactly
be found. Then near that Meridian Line, the
Back of the Astrolabe, or any other fit Instru∣ment
of that kind being applied, the Alhidad
will point out the Degree of Elevation above the
Horizon; and this will be the Magnitude of that
Arch which extends from the place of the Star
to the Horizon.
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