Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems, the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, plain Mercator, and great-circle-sailing, sundry useful problems in astronomy, the use of instruments, the azimuth-compass, ring-dyal, variation-compass, the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal, the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical-quadrant, plain-chart, mercators-chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and vertues of the load-stone, useful tables of the Moon's age, of the tydes, of the Sun's place, declination, and right-ascention, of the stars right-ascention and declination, the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of meridional parts, likewise a new traverse-table, and use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea, also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the log sines, tangents and secants /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by J. Darby, and are to sold by the author at the Hermitage in Wapping, by William Fisher at the Postern-gate near Tower-hill, and by Eliz. Hurlock at the Rose at the West-end of St. Pauls,
anno 1676.
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| Edition: | The third edition, enlarged. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Edition statement immediately follows title. With an added engraved title page (plate). With divisional title pages: "Triangular canon logarithmical: or, a table of artificial sines, tangents, secants ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1673." and "Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes: for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 10000 ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1672.". Frontis signed by R. White, sculp. Signatures: A-Tt4 Uu1 ii4 Xx4 Zz4 ll-eee4 fff2. Irregular pagination. The final [148] pages are tables. Reproduction of original in: York Minster. Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([9], 328, 65-72, 335-350, [148] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations. |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |