Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1700
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1699
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Moxon, Joseph, ‡d 1627-1700
Works
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A book of sea-plats, containing all the ports, havens, creeks, capes, rocks, sand, and shoalds, in all Europe : whereby is shewn the distance of places one from another, and upon what point of the compass they bear, as also the depths or soundings upon each respective coast : beginning at the Straits, and from thence passing all along the whole coasts ... usefull for all sea-men, merchants, or other persons that may be inquisitive after naval affairs | |
A brief discourse of a passage by the North Pole to Japan, China. & c : pleaded by three experiments, and answers to all objections that can be urged against a passage that way ... | |
Canaan comonly called the Holy Land or the Land of Promise, being the Possesion of the Israelites & travelled through by Our Lord & Saviour Iesus Christ and his Apostles | |
A collection of some attempts made to the North-East, and North-West, for the finding a passage to Japan, China, &c : As also somewhat relating to the satisfaction of all inquirers into Captain John Wood's present search of a passage by the North-Pole, &c. By Joesph Moxon, Hydroprapher to the King's most excellent Majesty | |
Compendium Euclidis curiosi, or, Geometrical operations : shewing how with one single opening of the compasses and a straight ruler all the propositions of Euclid's first five books are performed | |
A Delineation and description of the famous city, Offen, otherwise called Buda : together with a particular account of this late famous siege as an historical relation of the several sieges and other accidents that has hapned to it ever since it came into the Turkish posession | |
The English globe : being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more | |
An epitome of the whole art of war : In two parts. The first of military discipline, containing the whole exercise of the pike and musquet, &c. with plain directions for the various postures. Also the drawing up of battalions, and way of forming them; with the art of doubling, wheeling, forming and drawing up an army into any figure. The way of conducting armies in hilly, woody or plain countries: of encampings, besiegings, giving of battle, &c. The second of fortification and gunnery, which shews the principles and practices of fortification, as now used, as well by the English, as several other European nations, (especially by Their Majesties army) at the late siege of Athlone, Galoway, Limerick, &c. ... Of casements, cittadels, crownworks, ravelins, &c. Of gunnery, ... morters, demy-cannon, &c. with the manner of batteries, &c. All illustrated and further explained by 18 copper-plates, curiously designed and engraven | |
Israels Peregrination, or the Forty Years Travels of the Children of Israel out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and the Wilderness into Canaan, Or The Land of Promise | |
Jerusalem | |
Ein kurzer Discours von der Schiff-Fahrt bey dem Nord-Pol nach Japan, China und so weiter : durch drey Erfahrungen dargethan und erwiesen ... : Aus dem Englischen ins Hochdeutsche übersezet | |
A map of all the earth and how after the flood it was divided among the sons of Noah | |
A map of the river Thames : Merrily cald Blanket Fair as it was frozen in the memorable-year 1683/4. : Describing the booths, foot-paths, coachs, sledges, bull baitings and other remarks upon that famous river | |
Mathematicks made easy, or, A mathematical dictionary explaining the terms of art and difficult phrases used in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, astrology, and other mathematical sciences : wherein the true meaning of the word is rendred, the nature of things signified discussed, and (where need requires) illustrated with apt figures and diagrams : with an appendix exactly containing the quantities of all sorts of weights and measures, the characters and meaning of the marks, symbols, or abbreviations commonly used in algebra and sundry other observables | |
Mechanick dyalling : teaching any man, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dial on any given plane, however scituated [sic] : only with the help of a straight ruler and a pair of compasses, and without any arithmetical calculation | |
Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works | |
Paradise, or the Garden of Eden. With the Countries circumjacent Inhabited by the Patriarchs. | |
Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching [brace] by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c., by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences, so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe, by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one, when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c., and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity | |
Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura. | |
Regulæ trium ordinum literarum typographicarum, or, The rules of the three orders of print letters : viz. the Roman, Italick, English capitals and small : shewing how they are compounded of geometrick figures, and mostly made by rule and compass, useful for writing masters, painters, carvers, masons, and others that are lovers of curiosity | |
Selections. | |
The travels of St. Paul and other the Apostles or a geographical description of those lands and countries where in the Gospel of Christ was first propagated : Being a great help in the reading of the New Testament. | |
Trigonometria hoc est modus computandi triangulorum latera & angulos, ex canone mathematico traditus & demonstratus. autore clarissimo domino Willelmo Oughtred... Una cum tabulis sinuum, tangent & secant, &c. | |
Tutor to astronomie and geographie | |
The use of the astronomical playing-cards, teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in the heavens. : To know th[eir] place, colour, nature, Bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation. Very useful, pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingenuity. Invented by the Late Ingenious Mr. Moxon | |
Vignola, or, The compleat architect : shewing in a plain and easie way, the rules of the five orders in architecture : viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian & composite : whereby any that can but read and understand English may readily learn the proportions that all members in a building have one unto another |