William Bourne, A Regiment for the Sea (1574)
Date
1574
Author
William
Bourne
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
An Introduction vnto the Regiment for the Sea. The names of certaine things necessarie to be known of them that are Mariners or Seafaring men, meete to bee knowne of them that doe practise Nauigation, as this: the names of the circles of the Sphere, and what they are, and their vses: and also the names of other things belonging therevnto, and what they are, and their vses
Book title
A Regiment for the Sea: Conteyning most profitable Rules, Mathematical experiences, and perfect knowledge of Nauigation, for all Coastes and Countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all Seafaring men and Trauellers, as Pilotes, Mariners, Marchants. &c. Exactly deuised and made by William Bourne
Publication place
London
Printer
Henry Bynneman
Publisher
Thomas Hacket
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
navigation and the sea
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
A1r-B3v
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: 2 Embadometrie. Is the measuring the contentes of all flat things, as Land, Boorde, Glasse.
sample: 2 Embadometrie. Is the measuring the contentes of all flat things, as Land, Boorde, Glasse.
Schafer
1574 B
STC
3422
Other editions
1577: STC 3423;
1580: STC 3425 ("newly corrected and amended");
1584-92: STC 3425.5, 3426, 3427;
1596: STC 3428 ("newly corrected and amended by Thomas Hood");
1601-31: STC 3428.5 3429, 3430, 3431
1580: STC 3425 ("newly corrected and amended");
1584-92: STC 3425.5, 3426, 3427;
1596: STC 3428 ("newly corrected and amended by Thomas Hood");
1601-31: STC 3428.5 3429, 3430, 3431
Modern editions
Bourne, William. A Regiment for the Sea and Other Writings on Navigation by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner (c. 1535-82). Ed. E. G. R. Taylor. Hakluyt Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.
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Bourne, William. A Regiment for the Sea and Other Writings on Navigation. Ed. E. G. R. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1963. view record
Bourne, William. A Regiment for the Sea and Other Writings on Navigation. Ed. E. G. R. Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1963. view record
Criticisms
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
157-58.
1577 edition
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