Scientia terrarum et coelorum : or, the heavens and earth astronomically and geographically delineated and display'd : containing the most curious & useful particulars in the solar starry & mundane systems, faithfully enumerated & delineated according to the latest discoveries
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Relief shown by hachures.
"As the act directs 20th November 1772."
Includes extensive text, tables, and many small astronomical maps, as well as the larger maps and charts listed below.
Ancillary maps and diagrams: The solar system -- The Northern Hemisphere -- The Southern Hemisphere -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma -- An universal scale of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, secants, &c., &c. -- A chart of the world according to Mercator's projection with the rhumb lines -- Selenography of a map of the moon according to Father Riccoli -- The vicissitude of seasons explained -- The analemma.
Appears in Kitchin's General atlas, 1773.
LC copy sectioned in four and mounted on cloth.
Latin title only. All other text in English.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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