The mariners new kalendar. : Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry with the extraction of the square and cube roots. Also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high water, with table for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension. Of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars. Of the latitude and longitude of places. A large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, forestaff and nocturnal. The problems of plain-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms and by Gunter's scale. A rutter for the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, France &c. And the soundings coming into the channel. With directions for sailing into some principal harbours /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by J.D. for Richard Mount at the antient [sic] shop at the Postern on Tower-Hill where you may have all sorts of mathematical and sea-books,
1697.
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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: | "A large and very useful table of difference of latitude & departure ..." has separate t.p. with continuous pagination and register. Advertisement: "Mathematical and sea-books, printed for Richard Mount" --Leaf proceding t.p. Reproduction of original in: New York Public Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([1], 152 pages : illustrations. |