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.

Title

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.

Author

Taisnier, Jean, 1508-ca. 1562.

Publication

Imprinted at London :: By Richard Iugge,

[1575?]

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Navigation -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• ❧ The Table.
• ❧ To the ryght woorshipfull Syr Wylliam Wynter, Knyght, Maister of the Ordinaunce of the Queenes Maiesties Shippes, and Surueyor of the sayd Shippes. Richarde Eden wysheth health and prosperitie.
• ¶ To the right Reuerende father in Christe, and honorable Prince, Lorde Iohn Gebhard, of the Earles of Mansfelt. &c. Archbishop of Colen, Prince elector, duke of Angaria and VVestphalia, hygh Chaunceler of the Romayne Empire. &c.
• ¶ Of the nature and effectes of the Lode stone, called in Latine Magues.
  • Agayne, of the naure, knowledge, vertue, equalitie, qualitie, and effectes of the stone Magnes, or the Lode stone.
  • The same is geathered an other way.
  • The maner to knowe the one pole from the other.
  • That one stone draweth another.
  • The composition of Instrumentes by the stone Magnes.
  • Of continual motion.
  • The fourme of the stone.
• ❧ Of most swift Motion by arte of Nauigation.
  • Of the ryght and due proportion of what so euer Shyppe.
  • Of the framyng and Architecture of the aforesayde Shyp.
  • To what vse suche kinde of Shyppes or vesselles may be applyed.
• ¶Of the Flowing, and Reflowing, (that is) increase and decrease of the Sea, with the causes therof, more exactly then hytherto hath been declared by any.
• ❧ Demonstration of Proportions of Motions Locall, printed rather for the learned Philosopher, then the Mariner, yet the Mariner may learne many proper conclusions necessa∣rie to be knowen. To the godly and not enuious reader, Iohn Taisnier Hannonius, wisheth health. &c.
• Demonstration of the Proportions of Motions Locall, agaynst Aristotle and all Philoso∣phers.
  • Demonstration.