A Prognostication Everlasting / Euerlasting of Right Good : Effect Fruitfully Augmented by the Author Containing / Contayning Plaine Briefe Pleasant Chosen Rules to Judge the Weather By the Sunne Moone Starres Comets Rainbow Thunder Clowdes With .
Leonard Digges (1520 to1559) / Corrected and Augmented By Thomas Digges ; Son / TEXT IS IN OLD ENGLISH
Published by London : Widow Orwin 1596 / Modern Reprint, No Reprint Date 0
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Full title page reads: A Prognostication Euerlasting ( Everlasting ) of Right Good : Effect Fruitfully Augmented by the Author Contayning ( Containing ) Plaine ( Plain ) Briefe ( Brief ) Pleasant Chosen Rules to Judge the Weather By the Sunne ( Sun ) Moone ( Moon ) Starres ( Stars ) Comets Rainbow Thunder Clowdes ( Clouds ) With Other Extraordinary Tokes Not Omitting the Aspects of Planets with Briefe Judgement for euer ( forever ) of Plentie Lacke Sicknes Dearth Warres &c ( Plenty Lack Sickness Death Wars etc) Opening also many Naturall ( Natural ) Causes Worthie ( Worthy ) to be Knowne ( Known ). To thse and other now at the last are joyned ( joined ) diuers ( divers ) generall pleasant Tables, with many compendious Rules, easie to be had in memorie, manifold, wayes profitable to all men of understanding. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman. Lately corrected augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne ( son ). Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, slight wear to edges. Glossy card covers with cloth spine. Archival reprint / replica of original edition. Privately published. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Limited edition of 150 copies. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Leonard Digges (1520 to1559), father of Thomas Digges, was a well-known English mathematician and surveyor, credited with the inventions of the telescope and theodolite, and a great popularizer of science through his publications in English. In a way, his son followed in his footsteps and was a pivotal player in the popularization of Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. The first publication of many by Leonard Digges was A General Prognostication published in 1553, which became a best-seller as it contained a perpetual calendar, collections of weather lore and a wealth of astronomical material, until then largely only obtainable through books published in Latin or Greek. It was revised in 1555 (the earliest surviving edition) and again in 1556 with the title A Prognostication everlasting. Subsequent editions reprint the text from 1556; editions from 1576 and later include additional material by his son. Title page of Leonard Digges's Pantometria (1591) ; Leonard Digges is also sometimes credited with independently inventing the reflecting, and probably the refracting telescope as part of his need to see accurately over long distances during his surveying works. In the preface to the 1591 Pantometria, (a book on measurement, partially based on his father's notes and observations) Leonard's son Thomas lauded his father's accomplishments. Some of the praise of the son for the father appears to be extravagant exaggeration, while other claims appear more credible. In 1554, Leonard Digges took part in an unsuccessful rebellion led by the Protestant Sir Thomas Wyatt against England's new Catholic Queen Mary who took over the throne in 1553 from her father Henry VIII. Digges was condemned to death, but escaped capital punishment, instead forfeiting all his estates. TEXT IS IN OLD ENGLISH. 112 pages, illustrated with astronomical drawings and charts. Limited edition of 150 copies.…
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- A Prognostication Everlasting / Euerlasting of Right Good : Effect Fruitfully Augmented by the Author Containing / Contayning Plaine Briefe Pleasant Chosen Rules to Judge the Weather By the Sunne Moone Starres Comets Rainbow Thunder Clowdes With .
- Author
- Leonard Digges (1520 to1559) / Corrected and Augmented By Thomas Digges ; Son / TEXT IS IN OLD ENGLISH
- Publisher
- London : Widow Orwin 1596 / Modern Reprint, No Reprint Date 0
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft Flex Covers w Cloth Spine
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- Illus with b/w Drawings + Charts
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- Modern reprint, no edition stated.
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- Astrology / Astrological Guidebook
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