The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661.

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Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673.

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At Amsterdam :: printed by John Johnson bookseller, dwelling upon the Water, in the Passe-card,

1654.

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"The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80180.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.

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The Twinnes.

THe figure Gemini (in English the Twinnes) is scituated direct north, from the great Dogge, or Canis Major

[illustration]

in the same man∣ner as it is here described, the north head there∣of commeth 40 minutes, after the Dogge into the South, his decli∣nation is two and thirty degrees, and 37 minutes, from the Line Northward.

The south and lowest head ther∣of commeth 54 minutes after the great Dogge into the south; and hath his declination towards the north, 28 de∣grees, 51 minutes.

The clearest in the Foot commeth a quarter of an houre before the great Dogge into the South, his declination is 16 degrees and 40 minutes towards the north.