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A51558 The use of the astronomical playing-cards teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in heaven, to know their place in heaven, colour, nature, and bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation, very useful, and pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingeniety. By Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Moxon, Joseph.; Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598. aut 1692 (1692) Wing M3027A; ESTC N66308 31,031 62

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Book de Commensurandis locorum distantiis Now besides all this touching the reason of invention of these Constellations the Poets in setting forth those Stories had this purpose to make men fall in love with Astronomy When Demosthenes could not get the people of Athens to hear him in a matter of great moment and profitable to the Common-wealth he began to tell them a Tale of a fellow that sold an Ass by which Tale he so wrought on the Athenians that they were both willing to hear his whole Oration and to put in practise that whereunto he exhorted them The like intent had the Poets in these Stories They saw that Astronomy being for commodity singular in the life of Man was almost of all men utterly neglected Hereupon they began to set forth that Art under these Fictions that thereby such as could not be perswaded by commodity might by the Pleasure be induced to take a view of these matters and thereby at length fall in love with them For commonly note this that he that is ready to read the Stories cannot content himself therewith but desireth also to know the Constellations or at least wise some principal Star therein FINIS A Catalogue of GLOBES Coel●stial and Terrestrial Spheres Maps Sea-Plats Mathematical Instruments and Books with the●r Prizes Made and Sold by J. Moxon at the Sign of Atlas in Warwick Lane GLOBES 26 Inches the Diameter The price 20 l. the pair GLOBES near 15 Inches Diameter The price 4 l. GLOBES 8 Inches Diameter The price 2 l. GLOBES 6 Inches Diameter The price 1 l. 10 s. CONCAVE HEMISPHERES of the Starry Orb which serves for a Case to a Terrestrial Globe of 3 Inches Diameter made portable for the Pocket Price 15 s. The English GLOBE invented by the Right Honourable the Earl of Castlemain 12 Inches Diameter The price ordinary made up 40 s. and with the Projection at bottom 50 s. Best made up 5 l. SPHERES according to the Copernican Hypothesis both General and Particular 20 Inches Diameter Price of the General 5 l. of the Particular 6 l. of both together 10 l. SPHERES according to the Ptolomaick System 14 inches Diameter Price 3 l. SPHERES according to the Ptolomaick System 8 Inches Diameter Price 1 l. 10 s. Gunter's Quadrant 13 Inches Radius printed on Paper and pasted on a Board with a Nocturnal on the back-side Price 5 s. Gunter's Quadrant 4 Inches Radius printed on Paper and pasted on Brass with a Nocturnal on the back-side and a Wooden Case covered with Leather fit for it A new Invention contrived for the Pocket Price 6 s. A large Map of the World 10 Foot long and 7 Foot deep pasted on Cloth and coloured Price 2 l. A Map of all the World 4 Foot long and 3 Foot deep pasted on Cloth and coloured Price 10 s. in Sheets 2 s. 6 d. A Map of the English Empire in America describing all Places inhabited there by the English Nation as well on the Islands as on the Continent Price 15 s. Six Scriptural Maps 1. Of all the Earth and how after the Flood it was divided among the Sons of Noah 2. Of Paradise or the Garden of Eden with the Countreys circumjacent inhabited by the Patriarchs 3. The 40 years travel of the Children of Israel through the Wilderness 4. Of Canaan or the Holy Land and how it was divided among the twelve Tribes of Israel and travelled through by our Saviour and his Apostles 5. The Travels of St. Paul and others of the Apostles in their propagating the Gospel 6. Jerusalem as it stood in our Saviours time with a Book of explanations to these Maps entituled Sacred Geography Price of the Maps 6 s. useful to be bound up with Bibles Price of the Book 1 s. 6 d. A New Map of the Kingdom of Ireland in one Royal sheet of Paper price 1 s. by J. Moxon A New Map of England shewing the Roads from Edinburgh to London in 2 sheets price 1 s. By J. Moxon A New Map of Scotland in one Royal Sheet price 1 s. by J. Moxon A Sea Plat or Map of all the World according to Mercator in two large Royal Sheets of Paper set forth by Mr. Edward Wright and newly corrected by Joseph Moxon c. Price 2 s. Sea-Plats for Sailing to all parts of the World Price 6 d. the Sheet The famous City of Batavia in the East Indies built and inhabited by the Dutch curiously Engraved and Printed on four large Sheets of Royal Paper Price 2 s. 6 d. A small Map of all the World with Descriptions on one Sheet Price 6 d. BOOKS A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography or the Use of both the GLOBES Coelestial and Terrestrial by Joseph Moxon A Member of the Royal Society and Hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty Price 5 s. The Vse of the English Globe by the Right Honorable the Earl of Castlemain Price 5 s. The Vse of the Numbring Nines By the Right Honourable John Lord Naper Price 1 s. The Vse of the Copernican Spheres teaching to salve the Phaenomena by them as easily as by the Ptolomaick Spheres by Joseph Moxon c. Price 4 s. Wright's Correction of Errors in the Art of Navigation Price 8 s. New and rare Invention of Water-works teaching how to raise Water higher than the Spring By which Invention the Perpetual Motion is proposed many hard Labours performed and varieties of Motions and Sounds produced By Isaac de Caus Engineer to King Charles the First Price 8 s. Practical Perspective or Perspective made easy Teaching by the Opticks how to delineate all Bodies Buildings and Landskips c. By the Catoptricks how to delineate confused Appearances so as when seen in a Mirrour or Polish'd Body of any intended Shape the Reflection shall shew a Design By the Dioptricks how to draw part of many Figures into one when seen through a Glass or Christal cut into many Faces By Joseph Moxon c. Price 7 s. An exact survey of the Microcosm being an Anatomy of the Bodies of Man and Woman wherein the Skin Veins Nerves Muscles Bones Sinews and Ligaments accurately delineated Engraven on large Copper plates Printed and curiously pasted together so as at first sight you may behold all the parts of Man and Woman and by turning up the several Dissections of the Papers take a view of all their Inwards with Alphabetical References to the names of every Member and part of the Body Set forth in Latin by Remelinus and Michael Spaher of Tyrol and Englished by John Ireton Chyrurgeon and lastly perused and corrected by several rare Anatomists Price 14 s. Vignola or the Compleat Architect shewing in a plain and easy way the Rules of the five Orders in Architecture viz. Tuscan Dorick Ionick Corinthian and Composite whereby any that can but read and understand English may readily learn the Proportions that all Members in a Building have to one another Set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola and Translated into English