Practical navigation [electronic resource] : or an introduction to the whole art, Containing many us...
Practical navigation [electronic resource] : 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 Stars Right Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Miridional 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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London : printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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[8],64,73-264,[128]p.,plates : ill. ; 4°.
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London : printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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Practical navigation [electronic resource] : 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, Quadr...
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Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
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With a half-title and an additional engraved titlepage on the verso of the half-title.
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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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