David Powell, Certain Brief and Necessary Rules of Geography (1573)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1573
Author
D. P. (alternate name for David Powell )
Book title
Certaine brief and necessarie rules of Geographie, seruing for the vnderstanding of Chartes and Mappes
Publication place
London
Publisher
Henry Binneman
Transcription source
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum facsimile (Bodleian Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
geography
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
EEBO/TCP
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: 4 The measure of distance of one place from another. Diuers nations do diuersly measure the distance of places. The Egyptians by signes or markes. The Persians by their Parasangas. The Greekes by furlonges. The Latines by miles, and sometimes by stones or markes. The Spaniards & Frenchmen by legues. The Germanes and diuers other nations by myles, and those of diuers length. Those which do write of these matters, do all in a maner agree in this, that foure graynes of barly do make a finger. Foure fingers a hande. Foure hands a foote. Foure foote a Geometricall pase, whiche is two simple pases. 125. Geometricall pases a furlong. 8. Furlonges one mile. 16. Furlongs a French league, which is two Italian miles. 3. Miles a great league. 30. Furlongs one Parasanga, which the Persians at this day call Farasanga. 40. Furlongs one Germaine mile.
sample: 4 The measure of distance of one place from another. Diuers nations do diuersly measure the distance of places. The Egyptians by signes or markes. The Persians by their Parasangas. The Greekes by furlonges. The Latines by miles, and sometimes by stones or markes. The Spaniards & Frenchmen by legues. The Germanes and diuers other nations by myles, and those of diuers length. Those which do write of these matters, do all in a maner agree in this, that foure graynes of barly do make a finger. Foure fingers a hande. Foure hands a foote. Foure foote a Geometricall pase, whiche is two simple pases. 125. Geometricall pases a furlong. 8. Furlonges one mile. 16. Furlongs a French league, which is two Italian miles. 3. Miles a great league. 30. Furlongs one Parasanga, which the Persians at this day call Farasanga. 40. Furlongs one Germaine mile.
Schafer
1573 P
STC
19060
Facsimiles
Powell, David. Rules of Geographie for the Understanding of Chartes and Mappes . The English experience, no. 818. n.p.: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1976. view record
Criticisms
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 128-29. view record
