Varenius, Bernhard (1622-1650)
A Compleat system of general geography explaining the nature and properties of the earth viz. its figure, magnitude, motions, situation, contents and division into land and water, mountains, woods, defarts, lakes, rivers, etc., with particular accounts of the different appearances of the heavens in different countries, the seasons of the year over all the globe, the tides of the sea, bays, capes, islands, rocks, sand-banks, shelves, the state of the atmosphere, the nature of exhalations, winds, storms, tornados, etc., the origin of springs mineral-waters, burning mountains, mines, etc., the uses and making of maps, globes and sea-charts, the foundations of dialling, the art of measuring heights and distances, the art of ship-building, navigation and the ways of finding the longitude at sea, originally written in Latin by Bernhard Varenius..., since improved and illustrated by Sir Isaac Newton and Dr. Jurin, and now translated into English with additional notes... particularly useful to students in the universities, travellers, sailors and all those who desire to be acquainted with mixed mathematics, geography, astronomy and navigation, by Mr. Dugdale, the whole revised and corrected by Peter Shaw,... 3rd edition...
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