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Title: A collection of authentic, useful, and entertaining voyages and discoveries : digested in a chronological series. Author: John Barrow Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP03861502 CollectionID: CTRG02-B68 PublicationDate: 17650101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: "Voyages performed by the following celebrated commanders, viz. Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Pedro Alvarez de Gabral, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Cavendish, Oliver Van Noort, George Spilbergen, W. Schooten and J. Le Maire, Captain Monk, The sufferings of eight seamen, Abel Tasman, Dampier, Wafer's journey across Darien, Captain Woodes Rogers and Courtney, including the history of Alexander Selkirk ..., Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa, Lord Anson, Mr. Ellis, Narrative of the Doddington East-Indiaman, Martin's (and others) description of St. Kilda, Russian voyages for the discovery of a north-east passage." Collation: 3 v. : ill. (some fold), fold. maps ; 18 cm
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Barrow, studied in the English College in Rome for seven years but was not ordained immediately as he was impressed into the Royal Navy in Portsmouth and served for five years before deserting at Dunkirk.
Nothing is known of Barrow"s family. He was initially a teacher of mathematics and navigation aboard ships of the Royal Navy. He retired before 1750 and devoted himself to writing and compiling dictionaries and other works related to his knowledge of mathematics and science.
Barrow"s best-known work was Navigatio Britannica (1750), a practical handbook of navigation and charts still being advertised by its publisher, Mount & Page, in 1787.
lieutenant included an examination of nautical instruments and explained the recently introduced vernier scale. Barrow seems to have been in close touch with nautical instrument makers while he was a naval instructor.
In 1756 he published a geographical dictionary anonymously in London. In the same year, he also published the first edition of his principal work, ‘A Chronological Abridgment or History of the Discoveries made by Europeans in the different parts of the world.’ In his introduction, Barrow shows a considerable knowledge of astronomical geography, so far as relates to the finding of latitude and longitude by the stars.
The French translation seems to have had more repute than the original work, but even in France Barrow"s History of Discoveries was in a few years superseded by that of the Abbé Prévost.
The voyages selected by Barrow are those of Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Cabral, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, Joris van Spilbergen, Abel Tasman, William Dampier, Lionel Wafer, Woodes Rogers, Francisco de Ulloa, Lord Anson, Henry Ellis, and others The second edition of the latter compilation appeared in 1765, and was so successful that in the year following a French translation, by Targe, was published at Paris, in twelve volumes.
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(Title: A collection of authentic, useful, and entertainin...)
(Title: A collection of authentic, useful, and entertainin...)
(Title: A collection of authentic, useful, and entertainin...)
(Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts re...)
