Limenheuretica Greek , sive porluum investigandorum ratio. Metaphraste Hug. Grotio Batavo

by Simon Stevin

$35,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Leiden: Ex officina Plantiniana apud Christophorum Raphelengium. Academiae Lugduno-Batavae Typographum, 1599. First Latin edition, extremely rare, of Stevin’s highly important work on the determination of position at sea using the magnetic variation or declination of the compass needle, the angle between magnetic north and true north; since latitude was simply measured, this was tantamount to the determination of

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