Practical navigation, or an introduction to the whole art, containing many useful 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 and Ring - Dial. The Fore-Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plain - Scale, Gunter's - Scale, Plain - Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, 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 Star's Right-Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Meridional Parts; Likewise a new Traverse - Table, and the Use thereof in keeping a Reckoning at Sea: Also a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm - Sines, Tangents, and Secants. All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King
Practical navigation, or an introduction to the whole art, containing many useful 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 and Ring - Dial. The Fore-Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plain - Scale, Gunter's - Scale, Plain - Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, 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 Star's Right-Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Meridional Parts; Likewise a new Traverse - Table, and the Use thereof in keeping a Reckoning at Sea: Also a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm - Sines, Tangents, and Secants. All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King:
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1. Verfasser: Seller, John fl. 1658-1698 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London printed for Thomas Page, and William Mount, in Postern Row, on Tower-Hill MDCCXXX. [1730]
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Navigation > Early works to 1800
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Beschreibung:English Short Title Catalog, T122181
Page 231 misnumbered 131
Pagination irregular; the text and register is continuous
Reproduction of original from British Library
With a half-title
With a table of logarithms
Beschreibung:Online-Ressource ([8],64,73-264,[128]Seiten,vi plates) ill.,map 4°

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