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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Cite this Item: "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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Chap. 34.—Folio 342.

TReats of the Visible and Sensible HORI∣ZON. That the Stature of a Man being given from the Foot to the Eye, and the Semi∣diameter of the Earth being given, to find out the Semidiameter of the Sensible Horizon. The [ 10] Altitude of the Eye being given on a Tower, or Mountain, to find the Distance of the last point unto which the Eye extends it self, or which the Eye can see. The Altitude of the Eye being given, and of some erected seen Magnitude, as a Tower, Mountain, or the Mast of a Ship, to find the Distance thereof from that of the Eye. The Refraction of Rays in the Air, augmenteth the apparent Semidiameter of the Sensible Horizon. [ 20]