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John Senex

Born: 1678

Died: 1740

An English cartographer, engraver and explorer (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Senex>Wikipedia</a>).

Born: 1678

Died: 1740

Books by John Senex (50 max)

The gentleman's steward and tenants of manors instructed containing rational, easy, and familiar rules and tables for finding the value of estates of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, as well on lives as for years absolute, &c. ; with an enquiry into the nature of the annual disbursements, precariousness of the tenure, and casualties, that estates in fields or houses, or both, are charged with, or liable to ; and how they are to be accounted for in the valuation ; ... the tables for valuing estates on lives being founded on Dr. Halley's hypothesis, and calculated by the method laid down by Mr. Abr. de Moivre ... ; to which is added, an appendix : containing the description and use of an instrument for discovering the number of feet contained in any timber-trees, by inspection only

1730

Richards, John of Exon, Edmond Halley, Abraham de Moivre, Edward Baynard, John Senex, William Innys, John Richards

Modern geography: or all known countries in the world: Laid down from the latest observations and discoveries, communicated to the Royal Society of London and Academy of Sciences at Paris

1708

North America corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London and the Royal Academy at Paris

1710

An exact description of the total and visible eclipse of the moon August 29th 1718 in the evening

1718

The transit of the total shadow of the moon over Europe in the eclipse of the sun May 11th. 1724. in the evening

1724

William Whiston, John Senex

A Short Account of the First Settlement of the Provinces of Virginia, Maryland, New York, New ...

1735

Atlas celestis: containing the following hemispheres wherein are carefully laid down all the stars in Mr. Flamstead's catalogue as published by Dr. Halley : being above 2000 more than ever where inserted upon any hemisphere wherein the asterisms are so designed as to answer the description of the antients and the letters of reference made use of by Bayer in his tables are inserted

1769

John Senex, T. S. Bayer, John Flamsteed, Edmond Halley, William Whiston, Wright, Thomas

A new general atlas, containing a geographical and historical account of all the empires, kingdoms, and other dominions of the world: with the natural history and trade of each country : taken from the best authors, particularly Cluverius, Brietius, Cellarius, Bleau ... : to which is prefixed, an introduction to geography, rendering the principal parts of that science easy, and containing all that is necessary for the ready understanding of maps : together with a copious alphabetical index : the maps, which are all engraven or revised by Mr. Senex, are laid down according to the observations communicated to the English Royal Society ... ; and the descriptions suited to the course of each map, which has not been observed in any other atlas.

1984