Product Description
by James Alan Egan (Author)
Modernizations of his Main Mathematical Masterpieces 1558 (and 1568) Propaedeumata Aphoristica (in Latin) Propaedeumata Aphoristica (translated into English) 1564 Monas Hieroglyphica (in Latin) Monas Hieroglyphica (translated into English) 1570 Preface to Euclid (in Elizabethan English) Preface to Euclid (in Modern English) 1573 A Certain Essence of Parallax 1577 General and Rare Memorials pertaining to the Art of Navigation 1580 Map of North America 1583 Calendar Treatise Calendar Treatise (in Modern English) 1592 Compendious Rehearsal 1594 Discourse Apologetical Discourse Apologetical (in Modern English)
Author Biography
James Alan Egan is a historian and videographer living in Newport Rhode Island. He is the curator of the Newport Tower Museum, which explains his thesis about the origin of the Newport Tower. Egan asserts it was designed by John Dee to be the city-center of the first Elizabethan Colony in the New World. The Tower got built in 1583, but the colonization effort failed. The Tower was abandoned, only to be rediscovered by the early Rhode Island colonial settlers in the 1630's.