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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674 (Author)
Other Authors: Colson, John, active 1671-1709
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London: : 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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