The seaman's daily assistant : being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea; in which are contained rules, shewing how the allowances for leeway, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made, and to correct the dead-reckoning by an observation, in all cases: and also all the tables that are any ways necessary for the seaman's use in keeping a journal. /
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| Language: | English |
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Printed for Mount and Page, on Tower-Hill,
M, DCC, LXXXIV. [1784]
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| Item Description: | Signatures: A-X⁴. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Maritime Collection by the Cushing Library. "A later edition of a landmark in navigational publications. Haselden was a prolific writer of guides for navigators and seamen, best known for his work concerning Mercator's chart and its uses. When the present work was first published in 1722, he styled himself "Teacher of Mathematics...in the Royal Navy," and he was held in sufficient high regard to be elected to the Royal Society in 1740, but he died before he could be installed as a Fellow. The present work was not issued in his lifetime, but first appeared from the mapmakers, Mount & Page, in 1757. They kept it regularly in print (six more editions were issued between 1761 and 1775), and it became a standard work. DNB IX, p.106."--Vendor's description. |
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| Physical Description: | vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |