John Robinson eBooks

Proofs of a Conspiracy: Against All The Religions and Governments Of Europe, Carried On In The Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies. . E-book. Formato PDF John Robinson   -  Freeriver Publishing, 2017  - 

Proofs of a Conspiracy: Against All The Religions and Governments Of Europe, Carried On In The Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies.  is a classic by John Robinson.

Our Trees: A Popular Account of the Trees in the Streets and Gardens of Salem, and of the Native Trees of Essex County, Massachusetts, With the Location of Trees, and Historical, and Botanical Notes. E-book. Formato PDF John Robinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

These articles upon the trees of Salem and its neighborhood were prepared for the Salem Gazette from notes made during the season of 1890, and appeared each week in the columns of that paper through the summer of 1891. They have since been revised and some additional matter introduced for publication in pamphlet form, at the request of the directors of the Essex Institute.They were written for popular entertainment and instruction at the request of the Editors of the Gazette; and, although arranged with considerable care, they are not intended as botanical essays and the writer would not wish to have them so considered by professional botanists. For convenience of referring to the time of flowering and other conditions of the trees the date of publication is given at the close of each sketch.

Old-Time Nautical Instruments. E-book. Formato PDF John Robinson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Based on this instrument, by laying out the circle on a table, John Davis, the explorer, devised his quadrant in 1586. At first the observer used it by facing the sun, as the cross-staff had been used, but a better form was made later where the observer had the sun at his back. This instrument has been called by sailors jackass quad rant and, supposedly from its shape, hog yoke. In early books on navi gation it is called sea quadrant. The earlier form used by the observer standing back to the sun had a solid shade vane which slid along the smaller arc of the instrument. By adjusting this a little short of the sup posed altitude oi the sun and sighting the horizon through the minute hole in the sight vane until it was seen.