The description and vse of the sector, crosse-staffe, and other instruments : vvith a canon of artificiall sines and tangents, to a radius of 10000.0000. parts, and the vse thereof in astronomie, navigation, dialling, and fortification, &c. /

“This book must be reckoned, by every standard, to be the most important work on the science of navigation to be published in the seventeenth century. It opened the whole subject of mathematical application to navigation and nautical astronomy to every mariner who was sufficiently interested in devo...

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Main Author:	Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626
Other Authors:	Jones, William, -1643 (Printer)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed by William Iones, for Iames Bowler, and are to be sold at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1636.
Edition:	The second edition much augmented.
Subjects:	Mathematical instruments > Early works to 1800. Logarithms > Early works to 1800. Sundials > Early works to 1800. Navigation > Early works to 1800. Geometry > Early works to 1800. Astronomical instruments > Early works to 1800. Trigonometry > Tables. Logarithms. Mathematical instruments. Navigation. Sundials. Engravings. Early works.