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 May 22, 2025.

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Suppose, that departing from K. in the 50th Parallel, you Sail to the South by the Rhumb KV, VX, XZ, if by estimation your Ship [ 30] is at Z, in the 47th Parallel, and by observation in the 46th, the difference is of one Degree, which must be divided according as each Course did alter the Latitude by estimation. Admit that the difference in Latitude of the first Course was of one Degree, which is the third part; in such case lengthen your first Course the third part of your difference, which is 20 Minutes; then placing one Foot of your Compass in K, and the other in Y, upon the Parallel of 48 Degrees [ 40] 40 Minutes, prick your first Point 20 Minutes more to the Southward as at first, and doing as much from Y, and from 2; for the second and third Course prick your Point in 3, the place your Ship is arrived at according to your Obser∣vation.

But if in case you were surer of your Course than of your Distance, then stand to your Course; but lengthen your Distance. [ 50]