A voyage of the late King of Sweden and another of mathematicians sent by him : in which are discover'd the refraction of the sun which sets not in the northern parts at the time of the solstice, varition [sic] of the needle, latitudes of places, seasons &c. of those countries : by command of the most serene and most mighty Prince, Charles XI, King of Swedes, Goths and Vandals / faithfully render'd into English.

Title

A voyage of the late King of Sweden and another of mathematicians sent by him : in which are discover'd the refraction of the sun which sets not in the northern parts at the time of the solstice, varition [sic] of the needle, latitudes of places, seasons &c. of those countries : by command of the most serene and most mighty Prince, Charles XI, King of Swedes, Goths and Vandals / faithfully render'd into English.

Author

Bilberg, John, 1646-1717.

Publication

London :: Printed for Edward Castle ...,

1698.

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Subject terms

Karl -- XI, -- King of Sweden, 1655-1697.

Scientific expeditions.

Refraction, Astronomical.

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"A voyage of the late King of Sweden and another of mathematicians sent by him : in which are discover'd the refraction of the sun which sets not in the northern parts at the time of the solstice, varition [sic] of the needle, latitudes of places, seasons &c. of those countries : by command of the most serene and most mighty Prince, Charles XI, King of Swedes, Goths and Vandals / faithfully render'd into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28143.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE Most Serene, and Most Mighty Prince and Lord Charles XI. King of Sweden, Goths, and Vandals; Great Prince of Finland; Duke of Scho∣nen, Estland, Lifland, Care∣len, Bremen, Verden, Stetin, Pomerania, Cassuben, and Vandalia; Prince of Ru∣gen; Lord of Ingria, and Wismar; Palsgrave of the Rhine; Duke of Bavaria, Juliers, Cleves, and Mons, &c. &c.
• In Solstitium aestivum à Serenissimo, Potentissimoque PRINCIPE, CAROLO UNDECIMO, Suecorum, Gothorum, Vanda∣lorumque REGE, In TORNEA Urbe spectatum ex∣positumque à Celeberrimo Viro JOANNE BILBERG.
• THE CONTENTS.
• CHAP. I. The Observation of His most Serene Royal Majesty.
• CHAP. II. An Account of the Longitude of Places.
• CHAP. III. Diurnal and Nocturnal Observations of the Sun.
• CHAP. IV. The Doctrine of Refraction.
• CHAP. V. Of the Constitution of the Frigid Zone.
• CHAP. VI. The Latitudes of Places observed in our Return.
• CHAP. VII. The Figure of the Earth, Variation of the Needle, and difference of Refractions under the Pole and Aequator.
• BOOKS Printed for, and Sold by Edward Castle NEAR WHITE-HALL.