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Geography Anatonus d, or a Compleat Geographicat Grammar. Being a sstf.f* 33 J>short and Exadt Analyfis of the whole Body of Modern Geography , aster aNew and Curious Method; by Pat. Gordon. M. A. F. R. S. The Second Edi-dition.

6. An Account of the Measure of a Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth ; ”• II2 - ?» rLr.by M. Picart. Paris. 1671. Fol. Tranflated into Englifh ; by Mr. Waller R. S.

See. Lond.16%7. This Bock. is here Abridgd’, and the Sum of the whole amounts infh»rt to this. M. Picart measuredon a Plain and flraight Ground a Space of 566zToises, to ferve fortlse Firfl Basis 'to Divers Triangles 3 by xvhich he hath conciudedthe Length of a Meridian Line Equivalent to a Degree of Latitude, to be57060 Toises or Fathoms, that is, 18» Leagues and 60 Toises.

7. The Seamans Practice ; by Mr. Richard Norveccd. Lond. 1636. in 4,0. «. 126.{• 6z-.T he Measure of a Degree is here extraBed from that Book.. Mr. Norwood An.

1635". having aBually meafured, for the moft part, the wayfrom York to London,and having obferved the Meridian Altitudes of the Sun in both Places , he foundthe Difterence of Latitude to be 1° 18^. and the Dißance of their Paralleli905751 Englifh Feet ; and therefore one Degree of a Great Circle is 367196Fcet, or Numero Rotundo 367100 Fett, vohich is equa! to 69v Englifh Milesand 14 Poles j Whereas the French make it no more than 365000 such Feet.

8. Longitude found ; by Hen. Bcmd. Sen. Lond. 1676. in 4 to. A Miftakf in g oSi ;

that Book. is here CorrcBed. n. 130. f. 774.

9. A Book publifhcd by Mr.Jo. Moxon%, deferibing a new fort of Terre- H

strial Globes Invented by the E. of Castlemain. Ph.coifiui, *

10. The Englifh Atlas. Oxford, for Moses Piet. 1680. Fol. f 1 43 -

11. A new Map of England füll 6 Foot Square, wherein Computed and fh ‘ CoL n<21

Meafured Miles are entered in Figures ; by Mr.J. Adams. A IZZ./. SS6.

11. A Large and Curious Map of Great Tartary ; by M. Nich. Wiesen. ^

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