C 774 ) 
IV. Longitude founds hy Henry Bond Senior, TeAcherof the Md the- 
matitks, London i6]6 in 40, 
~ He Attcmptand Pains of the Author of this Book are certainly 
very commendable , forafmoch as he endeavours to explain to 
lis the Z/Y^ of the Inclinmry Needle , and in fo doing makes it known 
-to the world, that, as both xht Variation and Inchnation of the Needle 
were found out firft of all in this Nacion by two E^gltfi mtriy Mr./?*- 
i^ert Norman and Mr. William Burr ovps \ fo he (our Author) hath now 
made it bis bufmefs to apply it to an life, formerly, for ought we 
know, not thought of, t/i*. To find the Lorgnude. ' Which how he per- 
forms and makes good,is left to the Sagacious R^eadcr to judge. 
Mean time , the Publilher is defired , h^f-e to take notice of t 
roiftake committed in this Book , vix,. in tb^ page printed next after 
the Epiflle to the Reader where 'tis faid^^at This Treatife hath heen 
txamin'd by fix Coffsmi/Jieners appointed f>y the King, and the Truth of it 
affirmed to hif Majefiy : Whereas of the fix pcrfons there named, the 
Right Honourable the Lord Vifcount Brofsnckery Chanccilour to her 
Majefty, and Prefident to the R. Society, declareth, that he never fo 
much as faw this Treatife before it was printed, nor was ever prefcnt 
at any of the Meetings of the other Commiflioners • the Quality of 
tb«eport of whom concerning this matter the Reader will doubtlcfs 
be acquaintci-withjn due time. 
V* The Royal Almail^eU : By N.Srephenfon, one of his CMajeJlies 
Gunners. London 16-] jUJl^ 120, 
T His Almanack is a very ufeltrkDiary of the true places of the 
fun. Moon, and other Planets th<ir Rifing, Southing, and Set- 
ting ^ as alfo of High^ water at LondoH-iridg^whh Rules to fervc other 
places after the New Theory of Tides , a naJDi regions oiS'w fonai 
Moorc^ To which are added the Ec///>/<r/, witV» Table of Equations 
for the r€gulating curious Pendalfim-Clockj^ antl Movements to the 
Sun : Likewife, a Table of the Suns rigP.t Afcenfion in time for every 
day at Noon, and of Thirty of the moil> notable Fixed Stars Toge- 
ther with the Moons and the other Planets Appulfes to the Fixed 
Stars, for the Meridian of Londitt^ in the year 1677 ^ as alfo a Tranfit 
of Mercury under the Sun, calculated for OM, 28. next. All done 
with great care and pains at bis Mjj^fties command. 
Errat. p.7<^5.1. 14 & 1$. r.^oV/o ; ihid.XH r.thtConfidcration, 
Imprimatur, 
Vecemb. 14. 
1676. BR0UJ}ICKER, P.R.S. 
Lotidotty Printed for John Umyt\^Printer fo the K.Socicty,i6y 6. 
