BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. The Theoriques of the seven Planets... A Booke Most Necessarie... for all Pilots and Sea-Men... Whereunto is added... The making, description and use, of two... Instruments for Sea-men, to find out thereby the latitude of any Place upon the Sea or Land, in the darkest night that is, without the helpe of Sunne, Moone, or Starre... London: Adam Islip, 1602.
BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. The Theoriques of the seven Planets... A Booke Most Necessarie... for all Pilots and Sea-Men... Whereunto is added... The making, description and use, of two... Instruments for Sea-men, to find out thereby the latitude of any Place upon the Sea or Land, in the darkest night that is, without the helpe of Sunne, Moone, or Starre... London: Adam Islip, 1602. 4 o (183 x 137 mm). Woodcut diagrams in text, one volvelle with 4 discs, large folding woocut, full-page woodcut in text. (Lacking A1, possibly blank or containing the 4 discs of the volvelle, folding plate with mended splits to folds, full-page woodcut shaved at fore-edge, a few head-lines shaved, marginal worming to 2F2-2O4, catching the occasional letter, 2P3 with tiny rusthole.) Modern calf. Provenance : John Babington (fl. 1635, English mathematician and artillerist, ownership inscription on title); Sion College (old ink stamp on verso of title); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 29). FIRST EDITION. The Appendix includes the first printing of Henry Briggs's table of calculations showing how the magnetic dip-circle could be used in navigation for finding latitude, without using astronomical devices. This was based on Robert Norman's discoveries published in 1581 in his The Newe Attractive... which demonstrated the decline of the compass needle rather than the turning of the Needle towards the magnetic north pole. Briggs' table is preceded by the first printing of William Gilbert's description of his dip-dial. Although the factor of compass variation was not discovered until 1635 "the coordinated efforts of four men of science [Norman, Gilbert, Briggs, and Blundeville] resulted in their devising, out of a complexity of research and calculation, the simplest and most necessary aids for seamen" (Waters). Little is known about the English mathematician and artillerist John Babington. He was the author of Pyrotechnia or, a discourse of Artificiall Fire-Works, published in London in 1635, the first work in English devoted exclusively to display rather than military fireworks. A Short Treatise of Geometrie , written from the standpoint of a gunner (Taylor p. 350) was appended to the work. Adams & Waters 218; STC 3160; Taylor Mathematical Practitioners pp.173 and 337; Waters The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, p. 247-248.
BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. The Theoriques of the seven Planets... A Booke Most Necessarie... for all Pilots and Sea-Men... Whereunto is added... The making, description and use, of two... Instruments for Sea-men, to find out thereby the latitude of any Place upon the Sea or Land, in the darkest night that is, without the helpe of Sunne, Moone, or Starre... London: Adam Islip, 1602.
BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas. The Theoriques of the seven Planets... A Booke Most Necessarie... for all Pilots and Sea-Men... Whereunto is added... The making, description and use, of two... Instruments for Sea-men, to find out thereby the latitude of any Place upon the Sea or Land, in the darkest night that is, without the helpe of Sunne, Moone, or Starre... London: Adam Islip, 1602. 4 o (183 x 137 mm). Woodcut diagrams in text, one volvelle with 4 discs, large folding woocut, full-page woodcut in text. (Lacking A1, possibly blank or containing the 4 discs of the volvelle, folding plate with mended splits to folds, full-page woodcut shaved at fore-edge, a few head-lines shaved, marginal worming to 2F2-2O4, catching the occasional letter, 2P3 with tiny rusthole.) Modern calf. Provenance : John Babington (fl. 1635, English mathematician and artillerist, ownership inscription on title); Sion College (old ink stamp on verso of title); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 29). FIRST EDITION. The Appendix includes the first printing of Henry Briggs's table of calculations showing how the magnetic dip-circle could be used in navigation for finding latitude, without using astronomical devices. This was based on Robert Norman's discoveries published in 1581 in his The Newe Attractive... which demonstrated the decline of the compass needle rather than the turning of the Needle towards the magnetic north pole. Briggs' table is preceded by the first printing of William Gilbert's description of his dip-dial. Although the factor of compass variation was not discovered until 1635 "the coordinated efforts of four men of science [Norman, Gilbert, Briggs, and Blundeville] resulted in their devising, out of a complexity of research and calculation, the simplest and most necessary aids for seamen" (Waters). Little is known about the English mathematician and artillerist John Babington. He was the author of Pyrotechnia or, a discourse of Artificiall Fire-Works, published in London in 1635, the first work in English devoted exclusively to display rather than military fireworks. A Short Treatise of Geometrie , written from the standpoint of a gunner (Taylor p. 350) was appended to the work. Adams & Waters 218; STC 3160; Taylor Mathematical Practitioners pp.173 and 337; Waters The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, p. 247-248.
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