Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
Transcriber's Notes: This work was originally produced in 1630, only 26 years after Cawdrey's first English dictionary and more than a century before Johnson's. The spelling is, in many cases, strange to modern standards and highly variable. I have noted a small number of case...
Transcriber's Notes: This work was originally produced in 1630, only 26 years after Cawdrey's first English dictionary and more than a century before Johnson's. The spelling is,...
2. Chapter 23 _Sinus_ a Creeke, Gulfe, or Bay, when the sea runnes vp into the bosome of the land by a narrow enterance but openeth it broader when it is within; if it bee very litell it is...
3. Chapter 31 To describe an Æquinoctiall planispheare, draw a circle (_ACBD_) and inscribe in it two diameters (_AB_) & (_CD_) cutting each other at right angles, and the whole circle into...
4. Chapter 4Besides this way of measuring the circumference of the Earth, there is none other that hath any certainty of observati[~o] in it. That by Eclipses is most vncertain, for a littl...