The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs, risings of lands, rocks, sands and shoalds, with the marks for th'entrings of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe: their seueral traficks and commodities: together wth. the rules and instrume[n]ts of navigation. First made & set fourth in diuers exact sea-charts, by that famous nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley. Heerin also may be understood the exploits lately atchiued by the right Honorable the L. Admiral of Engla[n]d with her Maties. nauie and some former seruices don by that worthy knight Sr. Fra: Drake.
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The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs, risings of lands, rocks, sands and shoalds, with the marks for th'entrings of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe: their seueral traficks and commodities: together wth. the rules and instrume[n]ts of navigation. First made & set fourth in diuers exact sea-charts, by that famous nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley. Heerin also may be understood the exploits lately atchiued by the right Honorable the L. Admiral of Engla[n]d with her Maties. nauie and some former seruices don by that worthy knight Sr. Fra: Drake.
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Waghenaer, Lucas Janszoon, 1534 or 5-1606.
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[London :: Printed by John Charlewood,
1588?]
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Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Nautical charts -- Europe -- Early works to 1800.
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"The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs, risings of lands, rocks, sands and shoalds, with the marks for th'entrings of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe: their seueral traficks and commodities: together wth. the rules and instrume[n]ts of navigation. First made & set fourth in diuers exact sea-charts, by that famous nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley. Heerin also may be understood the exploits lately atchiued by the right Honorable the L. Admiral of Engla[n]d with her Maties. nauie and some former seruices don by that worthy knight Sr. Fra: Drake." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14624.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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A COMPASSE AND TABLE CONTAINING THE READIEST AND SHORTEST VVAY TO FIND OVT AL THE TIDES ALONGST AL THE COASTES OF SPAINE, FRANCE England, Ireland, Flaunders, Holland and Frisland, as well within the hauens as without from shoare: of which compasse the inner Circle sheweth the full seas vpon all those coastes, and in the hauens them∣selues.
The other vtter Circle sheweth the full seas off from shoare alongst all those saide coastes in the chanels, or other deepes.
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THIS VPPER HALF CIRCLE declareth the Nomber of Leagues, that you must sayle uppon eache point of the compasse, before you can rayse or laye a Degree, Southwards or Northwards.
The nether half circle conteineth the Number of Leagues wch. you run from yor. Meridian in altering of each point of the Compasse
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