Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art: containing many useful and geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles; plain Mercator, and great-circle sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass, ring-dial, variation-compass; the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal; the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical quadrant, plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and virtues of the loadstone. Useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension; of the stars right-ascension and declination; the latitude and longitude of places; and a table of meridional parts
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Main Author: Seller, John 1632-1697 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author, and John Wingfield 1683
Edition:The fifth edition
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Item Description:"A table containing ten chiliads of logarithms," and "A triangular canon logarithmical" each have special t.p. - Added illustrated t.p. - Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. - Wing (2nd ed.), S2483A
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