The mariner's compass rectified. [electronic resource] : Containing tables, shewing the true hour of...
The mariner's compass rectified. [electronic resource] : Containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass, upon which they Rise and Set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun - Dials, Semidiurnal-Arches, and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. By Andrew Wakeley, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate Tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the New-Stile. By William Mountaine, F.R.S.
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London : printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Pace & Son, on Tower-Hill, where you may have all sorts of sea-books, 1758.
Date
1758.
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English
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272p. : ill. ; 8°.
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Publisher
London : printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Pace & Son, on Tower-Hill, where you may have all sorts of sea-books, 1758.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1758.
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The mariner's compass rectified. [electronic resource] : Containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass, upon which they Rise and Set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun - Dials, Semidiurnal...
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Reproduction of original from British Library.
The illustration on p.95 includes a revolving dial - Horizontal chain lines.
With a half-title.
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ESTC T122851.
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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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74Vvb3rwwDZg
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991014829049702626
