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Vincent Wing (1619-1668)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: Vincent Wing

Date of birth: 1619

Date of death: 1668

Source of information: Special Collections

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All Souls Science 5 WIN: Geodœtes practicus redivivus, the art of surveying : formerly publish'd by Vincent Wing, Math., now much augmented and improv'd, with an appendix thereunto subjoin'd, shewing the whole art of surveying by a new instrument, called the emperial table : performing exactly in all respects, and in all cases that can possibly happen in the practical part of surveying, the work of the theodolite, circumserentor, semi-circle, chard and needle : with the description and use of a new quadrant : to which is added by way of supplement, Scientia stellarum, containing new and accurate tables of the planetary motions, whereby the planets places both in longitude and latitude, the places of the fixed stars, with the eclipses of the luminaries, are more easily attain'd, than by any yet extant

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BC Sc q/WIN: Harmonicon coeleste : or, The cœlestiall harmony of the visible world. Conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators. Fitted to the meridian of the most famous and ancient metropolis London, and principally intended for our English nation, and commended as usefull to all scholers, astronomers, astrologers, divines, physitians, Historiographers, polititians, and poets

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Early Science 5 1656/WIN: Astronomia instaurata : or, A new and compendious restauration of astronomie. In four parts... Whereunto is added, a short catalogue of all the most accurate and remarkable cœlestiall observations, that have been made by Tycho, Longomonotanus, Gassendus, the Landgrave of Hassia, and others