The mariners new kalendar [electronic resource] : Containing the principles of arithmetick and geome...
The mariners new kalendar [electronic resource] : 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. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks. .
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London : printed for Thomas Page, and William, and and Fisher Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1724.
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1724.
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132p. : ill. ; 4°.
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London : printed for Thomas Page, and William, and and Fisher Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1724.
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England
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1724.
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The mariners new kalendar [electronic resource] : 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 As...
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Advertisement after imprint: Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical and Sea-Books.
Horizontal chain lines in first signature; vertical chain lines in others.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
With a half-title, with advertisment on verso.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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