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STURMY, Samuel (1633-1669). The Mariners Magazine, or Sturmys Mathematicall Art. Corrected and revised by John Colson. London: Anne Godbid, 1679.
2o (293 x 187 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, printed title in red and black, 11 engraved plates (4 with volvelles) (one uncut), one folding table, woodcut and engraved diagrams and illustrations in text. (A few tears to folding plates, some light staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: James Baldwin (early ownership inscription on title and preliminary blank).
Second edition. Sturmy apprenticed, according to his own account, to a sailmaker in Bristol and later he commanded ships sailing out of Bristol, mainly to Virginia and the West Indies. His experience formed the core of his Mariner's Magazine, which contains: "The Rudiments of Navigation and Geometry. The Making and Use of divers Mathematical Instruments. The Doctrine Triangles, Plain and Spherical. The Art of Navigation, by the Plain-Chart, Mercator's-Chart, and the Arch of a Great Circle. The Art of Surveying, Gauging, and Measuring. Gunnery and Artifical Fire-Works. The Rudiments of Astronomy. The Art of Dialling" (title-page). "The aim of this veritable encyclopaedia was to provide his three brothers, his sons, and other young seamen with all they needed to know, even if their mathematical knowledge was restricted to arithmetic The Magazine was written in lively fashion, in the sections on seamanship the usual commands and responses being set out as dialogue between captain and crew (parts of this were lifted verbatim by Jonathan Swift for Gulliver's Travels" (DNB). Adams & Waters 3476; See Taylor Mathematical Practitioners 329; Wing S-6097.
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Second edition. Sturmy apprenticed, according to his own account, to a sailmaker in Bristol and later he commanded ships sailing out of Bristol, mainly to Virginia and the West Indies. His experience formed the core of his Mariner's Magazine, which contains: "The Rudiments of Navigation and Geometry. The Making and Use of divers Mathematical Instruments. The Doctrine Triangles, Plain and Spherical. The Art of Navigation, by the Plain-Chart, Mercator's-Chart, and the Arch of a Great Circle. The Art of Surveying, Gauging, and Measuring. Gunnery and Artifical Fire-Works. The Rudiments of Astronomy. The Art of Dialling" (title-page). "The aim of this veritable encyclopaedia was to provide his three brothers, his sons, and other young seamen with all they needed to know, even if their mathematical knowledge was restricted to arithmetic The Magazine was written in lively fashion, in the sections on seamanship the usual commands and responses being set out as dialogue between captain and crew (parts of this were lifted verbatim by Jonathan Swift for Gulliver's Travels" (DNB). Adams & Waters 3476; See Taylor Mathematical Practitioners 329; Wing S-6097.