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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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Main Author:	Seller, John, active 1658-1698
Other Authors:	Darby, John, 1624 or 1625-1704 (Printer)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed by J.D. for the author at the Hermitage in Wapping and Richard Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1694.
Edition:	The seventh edition, carefully corrected.
Subjects:	Navigation > Early works to 1800. Logarithms > Early works to 1800. Navigation > Tables > Early works to 1800. Nautical instruments > Early works to 1800. Nautical almanacs > Early works to 1800. Logarithms. Nautical almanacs. Nautical instruments. Navigation. Early works. Tables. Booksellers' advertisements (Genre) > England > 17th century. Rare books.

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