The triangular quadrant, or, The quadrant on a sector : being a general instrument for land or sea observations : performing all the uses of the ordinary sea instruments, as Davis quadrant, forestaff, crosstaff, bow, with more ease, profitableness, and conveniency, and as much exactness as any or all of them : moreover, it may be made a particular and a general quadrant for all latitudes, and have the sector lines also : to which is added a rectifying table to find the suns true declination to a minute or two, any day or hour of the 4 years : whereby to find the latitude of a place by meridian, or any two other altitudes of the sun or stars /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
To be sold at [his, id est Brown's] house, or at Hen. Sutton's ...,
1662.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Added illustrated t.p. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([2], 24, [1] pages : illustrations. |