Pedro de Medina, The Art of Navigation (1581)
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Date
1581
Author
Peter de Medina (alternate name for Pedro de Medina )
Translator
John Frampton Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Arte of Nauigation wherein is contained all the rules, declarations, secretes, & aduises, which for good Nauigation are necessarie & ought to be knowen and practised: and are very profitable for all kind of Mariners, made by (master Peter de Medina) directed to the right excellent and renowned Lord, don Phillipe, prince of Spaine, and of both Siciles. And now newely translated out of Spanish into English by John Frampton. 1581
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Dawson
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
navigation and the sea
Summary
Defines the seventeen fundamentals of navigation: altitude, degree, horizon, zodiac, equincotial line, declination, circles, tropics, part of the north, part of the south, longitude, latitude, patelius, meridian, hemisphera, zenith, and centrum
Extent
H1r-H2r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Parelius is a way imagined to goe straight by the heauen, or by the Sea, or by ye land, from the East into the West, or from the West into the East, without comming neere to the Equinoctiall line, or to the poles more in one parte then in another. (30r; h2r)
sample: Parelius is a way imagined to goe straight by the heauen, or by the Sea, or by ye land, from the East into the West, or from the West into the East, without comming neere to the Equinoctiall line, or to the poles more in one parte then in another. (30r; h2r)
Schafer
1581 F
STC
17771
Other editions
1595: STC 17772 ("With the declination of the sunne newly corrected")
Facsimiles
Cortes, Martin. Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar. Delmar: Scholars' Facsimiles, 1992. view record
