An epitome of navigation : containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, and their use and application in plain sailing, mercator's sailing, and great circle sailing, as also in astronomy and geography, and rules for finding the variation of the compass, and correcting the course. Together with tables of the sun and stars right ascension and declination, of the latitude and longitude of places, of meridional parts. Likewise a traverse-table, a perpetual almanack; and other things very useful in the art of navigation. And the logarithm sines and tangents, with the logarithms of natural numbers, from 1 to 10000, according to those exact tables formerly set forth. By Henry Gellibrand.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-hill,
1698.
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| Edition: | This edition (with many new additions) is carefully corrected by Euclid Speidell, student in the mathematicks. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | "Several tables necessary in navigation.." has separate dated title page; further text is not paginated and register begins on signature E. Caption title: An appendix containing the use of the cross-staff, quadrant and nocturnal in navigation., begins on pg. [49]; register is continuous. "A triangular canon logarithmical, or, A table of artificial sines and tangents .." has separate dated title page on pg. [57]; register starts anew. Divisional title: A table of logarithms of absolute numbers, from an unite to 10000., begins on pg. [149]; register is continuous. Reproduction of the original at the British Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([4], 55, [249] pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations, tables |