William Cuningham, The Cosmographical Glass (1559)
Date
1559
Author
William
Cuningham
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Cosmographical Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Nauigation. Compiled by William Cuningham Doctor in Physicke
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Day
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- cosmography and astrology
- geography
- navigation and the sea
Summary
A philosophical dialogue characterized by a discussion of definitions (e.g., pp. 6-8).
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Then let vs beginne with the definition of the worlde, whiche the auncient Cleomedes definith in this maner. And I do translate it into Latine as foloweth. Mundus est ex caelo, terraque, ac naturis denique in eis compraehensis, compages. Is autem corpora in se singula continet, nec extra eum, prorsus quicquam cernitur. That is, the world is an apte frame, made of heauen, and earth, & of thinges in them conteyned. This comprehe~deth all thinges in it self, nether is there any thing without the lymites of it visible. Whiche definition differith not from Aristotle and other famous writers. So that what so euer is betwixt the seate of the almighty gouernour of all lyuing creatures, and the center of the earth: is called the worlde. And is compared to à round ball and globe.
sample: Then let vs beginne with the definition of the worlde, whiche the auncient Cleomedes definith in this maner. And I do translate it into Latine as foloweth. Mundus est ex caelo, terraque, ac naturis denique in eis compraehensis, compages. Is autem corpora in se singula continet, nec extra eum, prorsus quicquam cernitur. That is, the world is an apte frame, made of heauen, and earth, & of thinges in them conteyned. This comprehe~deth all thinges in it self, nether is there any thing without the lymites of it visible. Whiche definition differith not from Aristotle and other famous writers. So that what so euer is betwixt the seate of the almighty gouernour of all lyuing creatures, and the center of the earth: is called the worlde. And is compared to à round ball and globe.
STC
6119
Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14.
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Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 119, 124-25 . view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 119, 124-25 . view record
