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 ...
- Title
- 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 ...
- Author
- Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Joseph Moxon ...,
- 1679.
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- Subject terms
- Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
- Globes -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- illustration
- title page
- TO THE READER Concerning this Globe, and the occa∣sion of the Inventing of it.
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A Postscript concerning the Erratas, and the Geographical part of this
GLOBE. - An Advertisement.
- The General Heads.
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The Explication of the Letters,
&c. onSch. 1. - THE Introduction.
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SECT. I. Solving many questions, relating to the Sun in our Elevation.
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Operation I. To set the Globe level or parallel to the Horizon. -
Operation II. To find the Suns Almucantar, or Height. -
OPERAT. III. ToCompose the Globe, either by a Meridian Line, or without it, to the site of the World. -
OPERATION IV. To find the Day of the Month. -
OPERATION V. To find theSun 's Azimuth. -
OPERATION VI. To find theSun's Declension, Parallel, and Place on the Globe at all times. -
OPERATION VII. To find theSun's Bearing,i. e. in what part of the Heavens he lies, according to the Points of the Compass. -
OPERATION VIII. To find when theSun comes to true East or West, or any other Bearing. -
OPERATION IX. To find what Signs and Degrees of it theSun is in, at any time. -
OPERATION X. To find the hour of the Day by the Sun, together with a second way of composing the Globe, and finding the Globe, and finding the Day of the Moneth. -
OPERATION XI. To find the Hour of the Day when theSun shines not. -
OPERATION XII. To know when theSun rises and sets. -
OPERATION XIII. To find theSun's Amplitude, Ortive or Occasive. -
OPERATION XIV. To find the length of the Day and Night. -
OPERATION XV. To find the beginning and end of the Crepusculum. -
OPERATION XVI. To find theSun's Depression at any time of the Night. -
OPERATION XVII. To find theSun's Right Ascension. -
OPERATION XVIII. To find the AscensionalDifference.
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SECT. II. Of the Operations that concern Geo∣graphy.
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OPERATION I. How to find the Distance between any two places. -
OPERATION II. How to find the Latitude and Longitude of any Place. -
OPERATION III. How to find out any Place, the Longitude and Latitude be∣ing given. -
OPERATION IV. To find the situation of any Place according to the Angle of Position, or Points of the Compass. -
OPERATION. V. To find in what Clime or Parallel any Place lies. -
OPERATION VI. To know what a Clock 'tis at any time, in any place of the World. -
OPERATION VII. To find where 'tis Day, and where 'tis Night, all the World over. -
OPERATION VIII. To know where at that Moment of time the Inhabitants enjoy nothing butDAY, and where nothing butNIGHT; as also when theDAY andNIGHT will be thus perpetual in any place subject to this Alteration. -
OPERATION IX. To find where theSun is Rising, and where He is Setting, all the World over. -
OPERATION X. To find where theSun is Vertical at any time, i. e. what People have him just over their Heads. -
OPERATION XI. To know where they are Rising, where they are at Dinner, where at Supper, and where going to Bed all over the World. -
OPERATION XII. How much any People (if it be Day with them) are past Morning, or want of Evening; and (if it be Night with them) how much they are past Evening or want of Morn∣ing. -
OPERATION XIII. To find theSun's height in any Place, where the Globe shews 'tis Day, or his Depression where it show's 'tis Night; as also what People throughout the World see theSun, at the same Height. -
OPERATION XIV. To know what a Clock 'tis with you, the Italian, Babilonish, and Judaic way. -
OPERATION XV. How to make the Globe Universal. -
OPERATION. XVI. How to take the Elevation of the Pole in any place whatsoever. -
OPERATION XVII. How to know in what Elevation the Sun Rises or Sets, an hour, or any other space of time, earlier or later than he do's in the Globes Elevation.
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SECT. III. Of the Moon.
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OPERATION I. To find the Moon's Almucantar or Height. -
OPERATION II. To find the Moon's Azimuth. -
OPERATION. III. To find her true place on the Globe. -
OPERATION IV. To know the Moon's Declension from the Aequator. -
OPERATION V. To find the Moon's Diurnal Parallel, and consequently how to Compose the Globe by the Moon. -
OPERATION. VI. To find the Moon's Bearing according to the Points of the Compasse. -
OPERATION VII. To know what a clock it is by the Moon. -
OPERATION VIII. To know how many hours the Moon has been up, and how many she lacks of her setting, as also how long she is to be that day above the Horizon. -
OPERATION IX. To find at what at lack the Moon rises and sets. -
OPERATION X. To find how long the Moon shines every night. -
OPERATION XI. To find when the Moon comes to South, and consequently when tis high water at London Bridge. -
OPERATION XII. To know in any Eclips of the Moon, what Countries see it wholly, what in part, and what not at all. -
OPERATION XIII. To represent the several Phases or Shapes of the Moon by the Globe. -
OPERATION XIV. How to find how long the Moon wants of any Change, or Cardinal Point, and consequently how old she is.
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SECT. IV. Shewing the Proportion between Per∣pendiculars and their Shades.
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OPERATION I. How to find the Proportion between the Perpendicular and its Shade. -
OPERATION II. How to find the height of a Tower by the Globe. -
OPERATION III. How by the help of your Globe to measure any Tower or height, and yet not▪ to seem to use any Instrument in the Operation. -
OPERATION IV. How to find the Hour by your Stick. -
OPERATION. V. How to to take an Angle in Altimetry by the Globe. -
OPERATION VI. How to make and figure the Quadrant of Proportion, as also the Demonstration of the foregoing Operations.
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SECT. V. Of Dialling.
- OPERATION I.
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OPERATION II. How to describe an Horizontal Dial by the Globe for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION III. To describe an Horizontal Dial Geometrically, for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION. IV. How to draw a true meridian Line on any Horizontal Plane. -
OPERATION. V. How to Describe a Vertical, or an Erect Direct South Dial by your Globe for the Elevation of London. -
OPERATION VI. How to make this Vertical South Dial by the Globe for the Elvation ofLondon. -
OPERATION. VII. How to draw a Line Parallel to the Horizon; together with two ways how to place truly all paper Draughts on their respective Plane. -
OPERATION. VIII. How to make a Vertical or Erect Direct North Dial for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION IX. To make the aforesaid North and South Dials Geome∣trically, for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION X. To describe by the Globe, Meridian Dials, or (as others call them) East or West Dials for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION XII. How to describe an East or West Dial Geometrically for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION XIII. How to describe a Declining Dial by the Globe for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION XIV. How to describe by the Globe a Declining Dial for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION. XV. How to describe Geometrically a Declining Dial for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION. XVI. How to describe Geometrically a Dial declining 40 Degrees Eastward, for the Elevation ofLondon. -
OPERATION XVII. To take the Declension of a Plane. -
OPERATION XVIII. How to describe a Dial on an Aequinoctial Plane, both by the Globe, and Geometrically also. -
OPERATION XIX. How to describe a Polar Dial, both by the Globe, and Geo∣metrically also. -
OPERATION XX. How to describe a Direct reclining North or South Dial. -
OPERATION. XXI. How to make a Declining Reclining Dial by the Globe. -
OPERATION XXII. How to describe by the Globe a Dial Declining and Reclin∣ing as the former, with a Northward Aspect. -
OPERATION. XXIII. How to describe all Inclining Dials, whether Direct or Declining. -
OPERATION. XXIV. How to find the Degrees of the Reclination or Inclination of any Plane by the Globe. -
OPERATION XXV. How to find how long the Sun can possibly shine on a Plane, as also (from time to time) when we may expect him af∣ter his Rising to come on, or before his Setting to go off the said Plane. -
OPERATION XXVI▪ How to make a Dial on any Plane whose stile shall be an Arrow fixt casually on it. -
OPERATION XXVII. How to make a Dial to show the Hour without a stile on a∣ny Plane. -
OPERATION XXVIII. How to describe a Dial, having a Picture of a Man in it, that shall Point to the Hour from time to time with his Finger. -
OPERATION XXIX. To make a Dial by which a Blind man may constantly know the Hour. -
OPERATION XXX. To make a Dial to show the Hour when the Sun shines not. -
OPERATION XXXI. How to make an Horizontal Concave Dial by the Globe, and Geometrically also. -
OPERATION XXXII. How to describe Geometrically a Cieling Dial. -
OPERATION XXXIII. To make a compound Dial to wit, one containing several useful Operations.-
J. Moxon To the Reader.-
I. Upon a Line given
(AB) to erect(CD) a Perpen∣dicular. -
II. Upon(C) the end of(AC) a given Line, to draw(DC) a Perpendicular. -
III. A Line(AB) being given how to draw(DG) a Pa∣rallel to it. -
IV. To describe a true Square. -
V. To draw an Oblong, or (as they commonby call it) a Long Square. -
VI. To Describe an equilateral Triangle, or an Isos∣celes. -
VII. To make a Triangle of three given Lines. -
VIII. To describe an Oval.
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I. Upon a Line given
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The
Use of the LINE of LINES marked with L.-
I. To divide a Line into any number of equal parts. -
II. To find the proportion between any two Lines. -
III. To divide a Line as any other Line proposed is di∣vided; that is to say, according to any Proportion. -
IV. To encrease or diminish a Line in any Proportion. -
V. Two Lines being given, to find a Third Proportional. -
VI. Three Lines being given, to find a Fourth Proporti∣onal.
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- Of the Use of the LINE of SINES, markt with S.
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SECT. VI. Of theSTARS. -
OPERATION I. To find the Declination of any Star. -
OPERATION II. To find the Right Ascension of any Star,v. g. of theLion's Heart. -
OPERATION III. To find the difference between the Suns Right Ascension, and that of any Star, as also the Difference of the Right Ascensions of any two Stars. -
OPERATION IV. To find the Place of any Star on the Globe, i. e. the Point that corresponds with its then Place in the Heavens. -
OPERATION V. To find the Bearing of a Star at all times. -
OPERATION VI. To take the Almucantar or height of any Star you see. -
OPERATION VII. To find the height of a Star at any time, by the hour tho' un∣seen. -
OPERATION VIII. To find the Azimuth of any Star. -
OPERATION IX. To know how many hours any Star stays above or under the Horizon. -
OPERATION X. To find when any Star Rises or Sets. -
OPERATION. XI. To find what a Clock 'tis by any Star. -
OPERATION XII. To know the Name of any remarkable Star which you see.
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- The Conclusion.
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A Catalogue of
GLOBES, Coele∣stial and Terrestrial,Spheres, Maps, Sea-Plats, Mathematical Instru∣ments, and Books, with their prizes, made and sold byJoseph Moxon, onLudgate-Hill, at the Sign ofAtlas.