The longitude not found, or, An answer to a treatise written by Henry Bond, Senior, shewing a way to find the longitude by the magnetical inclinatory needle wherein is proved that the longitude is not, nor cannot be found by the magnetical inclinatory needle / by Peter Blackborrow, Gent.
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- The longitude not found, or, An answer to a treatise written by Henry Bond, Senior, shewing a way to find the longitude by the magnetical inclinatory needle wherein is proved that the longitude is not, nor cannot be found by the magnetical inclinatory needle / by Peter Blackborrow, Gent.
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- Blackborow, Peter.
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- London :: Printed for Robert Harford ...,
- 1678.
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- Bond, Henry. -- Longitude found.
- Longitude.
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"The longitude not found, or, An answer to a treatise written by Henry Bond, Senior, shewing a way to find the longitude by the magnetical inclinatory needle wherein is proved that the longitude is not, nor cannot be found by the magnetical inclinatory needle / by Peter Blackborrow, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28285.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- THE PREFACE.
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THE LONGITUDE Not found by the Inclinatory Needle.
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In Answer to Mr.
Bonds first Question, in finding the Distance betweenLondon andVaygats; and from thence to find the Di∣stance of the Magnetical Pole, from the Pole of the Earth. -
In Answer unto Mr.
Bonds Question, be∣tweenBallasore andLondon. - To Demonstrate this Sphere upon the Globe.
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In Answer to Mr.
Bond 's Question, uponCape Charles, comparing it with the new Isle ofProvidence in the same Meri∣dian. -
Here follow Mr. Bonds Caroline Tablesof the Complements of the Magnilatitudesto eve∣ry Five Minutes of Inclinationof the In∣clinatory Needle,from the Magnequa∣torunto 84d 01m. of Magnilatitude, and 87d. 00m. of Inclination. -
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Table of theLatitude, Longitude, and theInclination of theInclinatory Mag∣netical Needle, in some of the most emi∣nent Places of the World, in1676. -
To prove the Earth the Centure of the Star∣ry Heaven, and not to have any Inclinati∣on towards the Poles, as
Copernicus would have it. - Another Example from the Sun, to prove the Earth the Center of the Starry Hea∣ven.
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In Answer to Mr.