A system of geography; or, a dissertation on the creation and various phœnomena of the terraqueous globe: As it Consists of Subterraneous Caverns, Subterraneous Waters, Mountains, Vallies, Plains, and Rocks. With an Hypothesis concerning their Causes. A Description of All the Empires, Kingdoms, &c. of the World. Exhibiting Their Boundaries, Situation, Division, Subdivision, Square Miles, Antient Geography, Chief Towns in each Division, Distance & Bearing from the Capital, Climate, Government, Remarkable Laws, Policy, Trade, Revenues, Forces, Curiosities, Persons of the Inhabitants, Character, Religion, Customs, Ceremonies. With Extracts of Antient and Modern History, and of some of the most celebrated Voyages and Travels, interspersed throughout the Whole. To which is prefixed, an introduction to those parts of the mathematics, necessary to a thorough knowledge of the subject of geography; viz. Algebra, Geometry, Plain Trigonometry, The Use of the Globes, Projection of the Sobere, Spherical Trigonometry, Geometrical and Physical Astronomy, great Variety of Geographical and Astronomical Problems, the Construction of Maps; Digested into Definitions, Problems, and Theorems, and fully demonstrated. By Joseph Randall

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Randall, Joseph
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for Joseph Lord, bookseller, in Wakefield; and sold by him at his shops at Barnesly, and at Pontefract; and J. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London 1744, MDCCXLIV. [1744]
Subjects:	Mathematical Geography / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0125900100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa