The new method propos'd by Signr Dorotheo Alimari, Professor of Mathematicks at Venice, to discover the longitude. To which are added, proper figures of some instruments which he hath Invented for that Purpose: With a plain Description of Them. Humbly presented to the Right Honourable the Lords, and Others, Appointed by Act of Parliament Commissioners, for examining and judging of proposals for finding the longitude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alimari, Doroteo, ca. 1650-ca. 1727.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Longitude--Early works to 1800.

Longitude.

Navigation--Longitudinal studies--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Longitudinal method--Early works to 1800.

Longitudinal method.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],20,6p.,plate )

Other Title:

New method propos'd by Signr Dorotheo Alimari, Professor of Mathematicks at Venice, to discover the longitude. To which are added, proper figures of some instruments which he hath Invented for that Purpose

The new method propos'd by Signr Dorotheo Alimari, Professor of Mathematicks at Venice, to discover the longitude. To which are added, proper figures of some instruments which he hath Invented for that Purpose

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXIV. [1714]

Notes:

English and Latin text of the proposal, Latin text of "some other papers upon the same subject".

English and Latin description of the instruments, with separate pagination.

Dedication signed: Sebastiano Ricci.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T87076.

OCLC:

642719940