The mariner's new calendar [electronic resource] : Containing the principles of arithmetic and pract...
The mariner's new calendar [electronic resource] : Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical 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: Necessary Problems in Plane-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 at coming into the Channel: with directions for sailing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematics. The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S. .
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London : printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, 1767.
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1767.
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English
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136p. : ill. ; 4°.
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London : printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, 1767.
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England
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1767.
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The mariner's new calendar [electronic resource] : Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical 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 th...
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'A large and very useful table of difference of latitude and departure' has a separate titlepage; pagination and register are continuous.
Advertisement at bottom of title page: Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
With a half-title.
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ESTC N3933.
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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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74VvLaaB7Roy
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