John Aspley, Speculum Nauticum (1624)
Date
1624
Author
Lexicon title
A description of some peculiar thinges, fit to bee considered, by such as intend to practise the art of nauigation, or astronomy
Book title
Speculum Nauticum: A Looking Glasse, for Sea-men: Wherein They May behold a small instrument called the Plaine Scale: whereby all questions Nauticall, and propositions Astronomicall are very easily and demonstratiuely wrought
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Harper
Transcription source
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum facsimile (Bodleian Library Ashm. 320)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- cosmography and astrology
- navigation and the sea
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
58-60
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The Nadir is a pricke in the heauens vnder our feet, making right Angles with the Horizon vnder the earth, as the Zenith doth aboue; and therefore is opposite vnto the Zenith (p. 58)
sample: The Nadir is a pricke in the heauens vnder our feet, making right Angles with the Horizon vnder the earth, as the Zenith doth aboue; and therefore is opposite vnto the Zenith (p. 58)
Schafer
1624 A
STC
861
Other editions
1624: STC 861;
1632: STC 861.3;
1638: STC 861.6;
1647: Wing A4011;
1655: Wing A4012;
1662: Wing A4013;
1668: Wing A4014;
1671: Wing A4014a;
1678: Wing A4015
1632: STC 861.3;
1638: STC 861.6;
1647: Wing A4011;
1655: Wing A4012;
1662: Wing A4013;
1668: Wing A4014;
1671: Wing A4014a;
1678: Wing A4015
Facsimiles
Aspley, John. Speculum Nauticum: A Looking Glass for Sea-men. The English experience, no. 844. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977.
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