The mariners-compass rectified : containing tables shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass : with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with : and tables of amplitude ... hereunto is added an appendix containing the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation : with a table of the latitude and longitude of places, composed after a new order /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for Richard Mason and Thomas Passenger,
1694.
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| Edition: | Carefully corrected, altered and very much enlarged with many useful additions / |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | "Exact tables of the sun's declination. Printed by J.D., 1691" (p. 1-92), "Astronomical tables of semidiurnal and seminocturnal arches. Printed by J.D., 1692" (p. 93-114), and "Astronomical tables shewing the point of the compass ... Printed by J.D., 1692" (pages 115-145) have special t.p.'s. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 315, [3] pages) |