Thomas Blundeville, A Brief Description of Universal Maps and Cards (1589)

Date

1589

Author

Thomas Blundeville Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

Certaine Tearmes of cosmographie, brieflie expounded, for those that are not learned in that science, to the intent they may the better vnderstand this Treatise

Book title

A Briefe Description of Vniversal Mappes and Cardes, and of their Vse: and Also the Vse of Ptholemey his Tables. Necessarie for those that Delight in Reading of Histories: and also for Traueilers by Land or Sea

Publication place

London

Printer

Roger Ward

Publisher

T. Cadman

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

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

A3r-A4r

Word-group

type: undifferentiated

Word-entry

type: logical
sample: The Equinoctiall is a great Circle, girding the world in the verie midst betwixt the 2 Poles, by reason whereof there are two latitudes, the one Northern, & the other Southerne.

Schafer

1589 B

STC

3145

Facsimiles

Blundeville, Thomas. A Briefe Description of Vniversal Mappes and Cardes and of their Vse, and also the Vse of Ptholemey his Tables, Necessarie for those that Delight in Reading of Histories and also for Traueilers by Land or Sea. The English experience, no. 438. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1972. view record

Criticisms

Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 128-29 . view record