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Norwood's system of navigation: : teaching the whole art, in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath been hitherto done. Shewing, the projection of the plain scale: the sphere in plaino: astronomical problems useful in navigation: traverse tables: right lin'd triangles ... The description and use of a new instrument called encyclologium, or the sliding cirlces: which, with ease, resolves all questions of proportion, trigonometry, arithmetick, square and cube root, gunnery, mesuration and dyalling /

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Main Author:	Norwood, Matthew
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for H. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill; and T. Wall, next the Tolzey in Bristol, 1685.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Navigation > England > Early works to 1800. Navigation > Tables > Early works to 1800. Geometry > England > Early works to 1800.
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