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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillippes, Henry, d. 1677?
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Printed by R. and W. Leybourn for George Hulock ..., 1657.
Series:Early English books online.
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