A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning nauigation, compiled in Latin by Ioannes Taisnierus, a publice professor in Rome, Ferraria, & other uniuersities in Italie of the mathematicalles, named a treatise of continuall motions. Translated into Englishe, by Richard Eden. The contents of this booke you shall finde on the next page folowyng.
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A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning nauigation, compiled in Latin by Ioannes Taisnierus, a publice professor in Rome, Ferraria, & other uniuersities in Italie of the mathematicalles, named a treatise of continuall motions. Translated into Englishe, by Richard Eden. The contents of this booke you shall finde on the next page folowyng.
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Taisnier, Jean, 1508-ca. 1562.
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Imprinted at London :: By Richard Iugge,
[1575?]
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Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
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"A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning nauigation, compiled in Latin by Ioannes Taisnierus, a publice professor in Rome, Ferraria, & other uniuersities in Italie of the mathematicalles, named a treatise of continuall motions. Translated into Englishe, by Richard Eden. The contents of this booke you shall finde on the next page folowyng." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13348.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2025.
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The composition of Instrumentes by the stone Magnes.
HOwe by this stone instrumentes maye be framed, by the whiche may be founde the Azimuthes of the Sunne and Starres (that is to say, Vertical circles) it shal not be necessary to shewe, for as muche as the same is easily done by the Mariners Com∣passe, or by the boxe with the Magnes or Lodestone inclosed, and flotyng aboue the water with a pynne erected, and in the vppermoste parte diuided into 360 partes, after the maner of Astronomie.
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[illustration] depiction of magnetic compass
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