The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...

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The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...
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Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.
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London :: Printed for Joseph Moxon ...,
1679.
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Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Globes -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31232.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Page 51

OPERATION. VI. To find the Moon's Bearing according to the Points of the Compasse.

THIS is to be perform'd after the way of finding the Sun's Bearing, in the * 1.1 7th. Operation of the first Section; for if you draw your String from the Zenith over the Moons present Place, the said String cuts (by our Example) the Ho∣rizon at S. W. and some few Degrees towards the South for her then Bearing.

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