TREATISE OF THE SPHERE - Witty, 1714 - Newton, Flamsteed, ASTROLOGY, ASTRONOMY

A TREATISE OF THE SPHERE   Book Details + Condition: John Wyat (London, UK). First Edition, 1714. Hardcover. Leather binding with gilt text to spine. 219 pages. Includes ten (10) fold-out pages of diagrams to the end of text. Wear to leather hard covers (which appear to have been re-attached at some point); cracked interior spine, but binding remains firm; written number to title page and inside front board; toning to pages; Trinity College (Cambridge) stamp in 2 places; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. Volume by Reverend John Witty, chaplain to the Duke of Devonshire, which is subtitled "Shewing how it is deriv'd from that theory which justly asserts the motion of the Earth: as also of the projections of it, both orthographical & stereographical; demonstrating their properties from fundamental propositions, and shewing their uses." The book is divided into sections on the orthographic projection, the stereographic projection, the use of the projection in astr