Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator : Containing, practical geometry, plane and spheric, superficial and solid; with its uses in all kinds of mensuration. Trigonometry, plane and spheric, both geometric, instrumental, and logarithmic, with its uses in navigation, viz. In plane, Mercator's, and great circle sailing, geography, astronomy, the projection of the sphere, &c. The Gregorian or new calendar, description and use of the plane-chart, Mercator's-chart, both globes, hemispheres, and divers other instruments. A new form of keeping a sea-reckoning, or account of a ship's way. A traverse table; a table of meridional parts; a table of 10,000 logarithms, and logarithmic sines, tangents and secants, carefully corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior, the whole revised and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, & F.R.S.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
Subjects:	Navigation. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book