The mariners new kalendar : Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots. Also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. : Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension. Of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars. Of the latitude and longitude of places. A large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff and nocturnal. The problems of plain-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by Gunter's scale. A tide table. The courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the soundings coming into the Channel. With directions for sailing into some principal harbours /
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| Language: | English |
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Printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill,
1710. Where you may have all sorts of mathematical and sea-books.
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| Item Description: | Wing lists edition in 1676 (C-5419) but possibly published as early as 1675; Cf. Stationers Register, 6 Jan. 1674 [that is, 1674-5]. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-S⁴. "Books of Navigation, printed for Richard Mount.": page [2]. This edition not currently listed in Adams & Waters's English maritime books, nor in ESTC. The Cushing Library/Maritime collection copy is bound with: The seaman's practice: containing a fundamental problem in navigation ... / by Richard Norwood. London : Printed for Richard Mount, 1710. |
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| Physical Description: | 144 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |