An account of two books: - I. A discourse of the state of health in the Island of Jamaica, with a provision calculated for the same, from the air, the place, and the water; the customs and manner of living, &c. By Thomas Trapham M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. Hon. - II. Catalogus stellarum austraiium: sive supplementum catalogi tychonici, exhibens longitudines & latitudines stellarum fixarum, quæ prope Polum antarcticum sitæ, in horixonte uraniburgico Tychoni inconspicua fuere, accurato calculo, ex di

I. A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, with a Provision calculated for the same, from the Air, the Place, and the Water the Customs and manner of Living, &c. By Thomas Trapham M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. Hon. II. Catalogus stellarum austraiium: sive supplementum catalogi...

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Published in:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Main Author: Trapham, Thomas
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Latin
Published: The Royal Society 1678
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1677.0065
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Summary:I. A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, with a Provision calculated for the same, from the Air, the Place, and the Water the Customs and manner of Living, &c. By Thomas Trapham M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. Hon. II. Catalogus stellarum austraiium: sive supplementum catalogi tychonici, exhibens longitudines & latitudines stellarum fixarum, quæ prope Polum antarcticum sitæ, in horixonte uraniburgico Tychoni inconspicua fuere, accurato calculo, ex distantiis supputatas, & ad Annum 1677. completum correctas. Cumipsis observationibus in insula S. Helena (cujus latitudo 15 gr. 55 m. Austr. & Longit. 7 gr. 00 m. ad occasum à londino) summâ curâ & sextante satis magno de cælo depromptis. Opus ab astronomicis bactenus desideratum. Accedit appendicula de rebus quibusdam astronomicis, notatunon indignis. Authore Edmundo Halleio è Coll. Reg. Oxon. This Book is divided by the Ingenious Author into ten Chapters, with a Conclusion.