A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning navigation (1579?)

A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning navigation (1579?)

by Jean Taisnier

Book 480 of Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints -- v.

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A translation into English by Richard Eden of Taisnier's book of 1562, itself largely a plagiarism of Petrus Peregrinus, "Epistola de Magnete" of c.1269. The main part was not especially necessary to navigation, being an account of the phenomena of natural magnets and a primitive compass.

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