The advancement of the art of navigation : in two parts : the first shewing by a new canon of sines, tangents, and secants, how to resolve all cases of right-lined triangles, onely by looking into the tables without any calculation : particularly applied to all the three kinds of sailing : viz. by the plain chart, by Mercaters chart, by a great circle, and to the art of surveying : the second part, shewing several observations for the better odering of the log-line, and for the more exact and ready measuring, not onely of minutes, but seconds of time, with some new experiments and engines for the more constant finding of a ships way /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by R. and W. Leybourn for George Hulock ...,
1657.
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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: | 2d part has special t.p. Inserted between the first and second parts is possibly a first edition of another work of Phillippes consisting of two parts which was published separately in 1708. The first part: The seaman's canon of triangles, London, 1657. The second part: A brief canon of triangles, London, 1657. Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([14], 156, [91], [33], 39 pages) |