A new and easy guide to the use of the globes, and the rudiments of geography [microform] : wherein the knowledge of the heavens and earth is made easy to the meanest capacity : first, by giving a concise account of the four quarters of the world, with the distance and situation of the principal islands and inland places : and secondly, by the solution of upwards of seventy useful problems in geography, astronomy, navigation, and dialling : in which are inserted, three useful tables : I. shews the latitude of the principal places and their longitude from the meridian of London : II. shews the sun's place, declination, time of rising and setting, length of days and nights, and beginning and ending of twilight every week, according to the new style : III. shews the latitude, longitude, right ascension, and declination of the most eminent fixed stars : to the whole are subjoined : I. an appendix, containing a short account of the solar system, and of the comets and fixed stars : II. A supplement, exhibiting a brief view of the figure and magnitude of the earth, of the nature of the atmosphere, of the theory of the tides, and a concise system of chronology / by Daniel Fenning ...
- Author:
- Fenning, Daniel
- Published:
- London : Printed for S. Crowder, in Paternoster-Row, 1785.
- Edition:
- The fifth edition, with large corrections and improvements.
- Physical Description:
- ix, [3], [1]-213 pages, [1] page, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps
- Series:
- Subject(s):
- Note:
- "Recommended by the Rev. J. Warneford, M.A. and several eminent mathematicians. In this edition are now first inserted a view of the Copernican or true system of the universe, and the coelestial globe, neatly engraved."
Publisher's advertisement on [1] p. at end.
Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. - Reproduction Note:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI, 1995. 3 microfiche. (Opie collection of children's literature ; 016:105).
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910 I:119.
Opie. H 42.
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