Astronomia accurata; or the royal astronomer and navigator: Containing new improvements in astronomy, chronology, and navigation. Particularly New and correct Solar and Lunar Tables; With Precepts and Examples of their Use, according to Old or New Style. The Elements of the Radical Mean Places and Motions of the Planets and Satellites. A New and Correct Catalogue of Stars. With their Right Ascensions, Declinations, and Annual Variations, (supplying the Place of Uranographia Britannica.) And Answers to Fifty-Three Astronomical Questions. Chronological Rules and Tables. Reduction of the Dates of Aeras. With Universal and Perpelual Time-Tables; serving for any Year, past, present, or to come. And Answers to many Chronological Questions. The Seaman's Ready Computer, Or New and Easy Navigation: Shewing how to keep an exact Ship's Reckoning; with Examples, according to all the Methods of Sailing in Practice, by only summing up a few Figures, taken out of Tables. Tobular Answers to all the Cases in Plain and Spherical Triangles; and to all the Cases of Sailing. An alphobetical Tide-Table: An universal Sea-Coast Table, of the Latitudes and Longitudes from Greenwich, and also the Island of Ferro, of the most remarkable Sea-Coast Places, Ports, and Harbours, lying contiguous round the World. To which are added An explanatory Comment on the Moon's Theory: An easy Method, with Examples, of computing the Lunations, and of Solar and Lunar Eclipses. And how to determine the Difference of Longitude, from the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich, by observing the Moon's Place, under any distant Meridian. With some useful Remarks and Improvements on the Motion and Theory of Comets. The whole interspersed with a Variety of necessary Tables, and Articles, subservient to the three principal Subjects. By Robert Heath, a military officer
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1. Verfasser: Heath, Robert d. 1779 (VerfasserIn)
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