Geography and Navigation Compleated: Being a New Theory and Method Whereby the True Longitude of Any Place in the World, May Be Found

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by George Keith

Geography and Navigation Completed
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Title not held by The Wolf Law Library
at the College of William & Mary.
 
Author George Keith
Editor
Translator
Published London: printed for B. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill
Date 1709
Edition
Language English
Volumes volume set
Pages [2], ii, 19, [1]
Desc. Quarto; illustrations

George Keith (1638/9 – 1716) was an outspoken Quaker missionary (and later, an Anglican priest), best-known for a sermon given at a Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia in 1693, "An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes."[1] Keith was George Wythe's great-grandfather.

"Geography and Navigation Compleated" was Keith's attempt to solve the longitude problem using geometry, the declination of fixed stars in the sky, and great circles.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

In his biographical sketch of Wythe for the Virginia Reports (1833), Daniel Call mentions seeing a "folio volume" written by Keith in Wythe's library, containing "mathematical and other subjects."[2] The volume may have contained one or more of Keith's essays on Quakerism, but his only "mathematical" writings were "Geography and Navigation Compleated," and "An Essay for the Discovery of Some New Geometrical Problems" (1697), and its supplement.

See also

References

  1. George Keith, "An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes" (New York: Printed by William Bradford, 1693).
  2. Daniel Call, "Judge Wythe," in Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, 2nd ed. (Richmond, VA: Robert I. Smith, 1833), 4:xi.