Norwood's system of navigation : teaching the whole art in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath hitherto been done : shewing, the projection of the plain scale, the sphere in plaino, astronomical problems useful in navigation, traverse tables, right lin'd triangles, geometrically, by tables of sines, tangents, logarithms, and by Gunter's ruler, applied to plain and Mercator's sailing : illustrated by schemes on copper-plates ... : the description and use of a new instrument, called encyclologium, or the sliding circles, which, with ease, resolves all questions of proportion, trigonometry, arithmetick, square and cube root, gunnery, mensuration, and dyalling /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for H. Sawbridge, T. Wall, T. Guy, T. Parkhurst, J. Robinson, H. White, T. Malthus, and C. Conyers,
1685.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | Includes: Of gunnery : so much of that art is absolutely necessary for a sea-man to know, on pages 369-384. Includes: The use of the tables of logarithms, on pages 1-11 (third sequence). "A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes, for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 1000. London : Printed by John Gain, 1685" on [62] pages has special t.p. "A triangular canon logarithmical, or A table of artificial sines, tangents, and the complements arithmetical of sines ... London : Printed by J. Gain in Upper Moor-Fields, next door but one to the Flying Horse, 1685" on [93] pages has special t.p. Includes: Encyclologium, or, The sliding circles, on 47 pages at end. Advertisement: pages [16] at beginning. "Arrata" [sic] on pages 47 at end. Imperfect: stained and with print show-through. Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([16], 384, 11, [62], [93], 47 pages, [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations. |