Robert Tanner, A Brief Treatise for the Ready Use of the Sphere (1592)

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EEBO/TCP
Date
1592
Author
Book title
A briefe Treatise for the ready vse of the Sphere: Lately made and finished in most ample large manner. By Robert Tanner Gentleman, Practitioner in Astronomie and Physicke. In the which Globe or Sphere, there is added many strange Conclusions, as wel Coelestiall as Terrestiall, the like heeretofore neuer deuised by any. Necessary not onely to those that follwe the Arte of Nauigation: But also to the furtherance of such as bee desirous to haue skill in the Mathematicall Disciplines
Dedicated to
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Charlewood
Transcription source
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum facsimile (Bodleian Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • cosmography and astrology
  • mathematics
Summary
Logical definitions
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
pages 1-13
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: "A Sphere is a massie body, inclosed with one platforme; and in the middle of it ther is a pricke: from which, all lines drawne to the said platforme, are equall each to other, and that pricke is the Center of the Globe, and so sayth Euclid. (a2r)
Schafer
1592 T
STC
23671
Facsimiles
Tanner, Robert. The Ready Use of the Sphere. English experience, no. 627. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1973. view record