CUNINGHAM, William (1531-1586). The Cosmological Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation . London: John Day 1559.
CUNINGHAM, William (1531-1586). The Cosmological Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation . London: John Day 1559. 2 o (261 x 181 mm). Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 99), arms of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester on verso, portrait of the author on A3v, folding woodcut view of Norwich, numerous tables (one folding), woodcut maps, diagrams and figures in text (one full-page), several large historiated woodcut initials. (Lacking final blank T4, title remargined with a small portion in facsimile, portrait remargined with five lines of the Latin verses on the recto in fine ink facsimile, folding map with gutter margin renewed and strengthened in several places with some small areas in facsimile, a few marginal wormholes, some repaired.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance : Errington family (painted armorial bookplate); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 59, illustrated). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ORIGINAL ENGLISH WORK ON COSMOGRAPHY (and the only edition to be listed by Pollard & Redgrave). Cuningham's comprehensive work of mathematical practice is particularly notable for its exposition of surveying by triangulation and for a method of determining longitude, which the author demonstrates using examples of astronomical observations made in his native town of Norwich. It is also the first book to deal with navigation in relation to astronomy and cosmography. Waters notes that Cuningham did for cosmography what Robert Recorde did for mathematics: rescued their subjects from the grips of the scholars and moved them into the realms of the gentry and merchants. John Dee in his preface to Billingsley's edition of Euclid (1570), noted that Cuningham's work taught many Englishmen to "like, love, get and use Maps, Charts and geographical globes." The work influenced a generation of Englishmen, stimulating their thirst for nautical exploration and the solution to navigational problems. Among them was Martin Frobisher, who included it in the very small number of books he brought with him in search of a Northwest Passage in 1576. Adams & Waters 568; Houzeau & Lancaster 2603; Johnson Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England ; STC 6119; Taylor Mathematical Practioners 34; Waters The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times pp.98-99.
CUNINGHAM, William (1531-1586). The Cosmological Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation . London: John Day 1559.
CUNINGHAM, William (1531-1586). The Cosmological Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation . London: John Day 1559. 2 o (261 x 181 mm). Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 99), arms of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester on verso, portrait of the author on A3v, folding woodcut view of Norwich, numerous tables (one folding), woodcut maps, diagrams and figures in text (one full-page), several large historiated woodcut initials. (Lacking final blank T4, title remargined with a small portion in facsimile, portrait remargined with five lines of the Latin verses on the recto in fine ink facsimile, folding map with gutter margin renewed and strengthened in several places with some small areas in facsimile, a few marginal wormholes, some repaired.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere. Provenance : Errington family (painted armorial bookplate); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 59, illustrated). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ORIGINAL ENGLISH WORK ON COSMOGRAPHY (and the only edition to be listed by Pollard & Redgrave). Cuningham's comprehensive work of mathematical practice is particularly notable for its exposition of surveying by triangulation and for a method of determining longitude, which the author demonstrates using examples of astronomical observations made in his native town of Norwich. It is also the first book to deal with navigation in relation to astronomy and cosmography. Waters notes that Cuningham did for cosmography what Robert Recorde did for mathematics: rescued their subjects from the grips of the scholars and moved them into the realms of the gentry and merchants. John Dee in his preface to Billingsley's edition of Euclid (1570), noted that Cuningham's work taught many Englishmen to "like, love, get and use Maps, Charts and geographical globes." The work influenced a generation of Englishmen, stimulating their thirst for nautical exploration and the solution to navigational problems. Among them was Martin Frobisher, who included it in the very small number of books he brought with him in search of a Northwest Passage in 1576. Adams & Waters 568; Houzeau & Lancaster 2603; Johnson Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England ; STC 6119; Taylor Mathematical Practioners 34; Waters The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times pp.98-99.
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