Practical navigation : or, An introduction to the whole art : containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles : plain, mercator, great-circle sailing, and astronomical problems : the use of divers instruments, as also of the plain-chart, Mercator's chart, and both globes : sundry useful tables in navigation : and a table of 10,000 logarithms, and of the logarithm-sines, tangents, and secants /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by J.D. for the author at the Hermitage in Wapping and Richard Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill,
1694.
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| Edition: | The seventh edition, carefully corrected. |
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| Item Description: | Verso of leaf with page 355 has "Mathematical and sea-books, printed for, and sold by Richard Mount, Book-seller ..." Added title page, engraved and illustrated: Practical navigation, or An introduction to the whole art, by John Seller, Hydrographer to the King. "A table containing ten chiliads of logarithms" ([55] p., 3rd group)--and "A triangular canon logarithmical" ([92] p., 4th group) have special separate title pages dated 1694; foliation continuous in spite of paging. Errors in pagination: pages [325]-[340] numbered as 329-344; pages [345]-[352] numbered as 341-348; correct pagination resumes pages 353-355. J. D. = John Darby. The Cushing Library/Dawson French Collection copy has ephemera: Vendor's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered pages, 355 pages, 55 unnumbered pages, 92 unnumbered pages, 8 folded leaves of plates :$b illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |