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Cosmographia, or, A view of the terrestrial and coelestial globes in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid geometry applied to surveying and gauging of cask: the doctrine of primum mobileCosmographia, or, A view of the terrestrial and coelestial globes in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid geometry applied to surveying and gauging of cask: the doctrine of primum mobile
Newton, John, 1622-1678.
"Tables for the measuring of timber" and "Astronomy, the second part, or, An account of the civil year" have special title pages.
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[15], 510, [16] p., [12] leaves of folded plates:
London: Printed for Thomas Passinger ..., 1679.
Arber's Term cat. / I 333
Wing / N1055
English
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He was a strong support of the Evangelicals in the Church of England, and was a friend of the dissenting clergy as well as of the ministry of his own church.
He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
John Henry Newton was an English Anglican clergyman and former slave-ship captain. He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
Sailing back to England in 1748 aboard the merchant ship, he experienced a spiritual conversion in the Greyhound, which was hauling a load of beeswax and dyer's wood. The ship encountered a severe storm off the coast of Donegal and almost sank. Newton awoke in the middle of the night and finally called out to God as the ship filled with water. It was this experience which he later marked as the beginnings of his conversion to evangelical Christianity. As the ship sailed home, Newton began to read the Bible and other religious literature. By the time he reached Britain, he had accepted the doctrines of Evangelical Christianity.
He became well-known as an evangelical lay minister, and applied for the Anglican priesthood in 1757, although it was more than seven years before he was eventually accepted and ordained into the Church of England.
Newton joined English abolitionist William Wilberforce, leader of the Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade, and lived to see the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807.
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