The modern navigator's compleat tutor [electronic resource] : or, a treatise of the whole art of nav...
The modern navigator's compleat tutor [electronic resource] : or, a treatise of the whole art of navigation in its theory and practice, curiosity and utility. Containing I. Domestick or Coasting Navigation, Sundry Notes of the Moon's Motions, Calender, Tides, &c. II. Theoretical Navigation, by Various Methods, viz. Geometrical, Logarithmetical, Instrumental, Tabular, and by the Pen only (without Tables or Instruments.) Together with Practical Astronomy, the Description, Construction, and Use of the Plain and Mercator's Charts, and other Nautical Instruments, &c. III. Practical Navigation, The Application of the Theory to Practice; in keeping a Sea-Journal, the working a Day's Log at Sea, in all Cases of Winds and Weather, making or short'ning Sail, Trying, Hulling, &c. And, the manner of making allowance for all known Impediments whatsoever (with Rational Corrections;) Illustrated with full, proper and practical Examples of the same. The whole more amply and plainly demonstrated, than in any Treatise of this kind extant. To which are added, all necessary tables, Nautical and Astronomical, for the Mariner's Practice, by Inspection. Also an appendix, Touching Pleasant and Critical Questions in Navigation; with divers other things both Curious and Useful in this Art. By Joshua Kelly, Mariner, and Teacher of the Mathematicks.
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London : printed for J. Wilcox, in Little Britain; B. Macy, on Hermitage-Bridge, J. Marston in Denmark-Street, J. Eade at King Edward's Stairs, and J. Kelly in Broad-Street, in Wapping, MDCCXXIV. [1724]
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[4],iv,[16],xviii,301,[1],108,72p.,plates : ill.,maps ; 8°.
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London : printed for J. Wilcox, in Little Britain; B. Macy, on Hermitage-Bridge, J. Marston in Denmark-Street, J. Eade at King Edward's Stairs, and J. Kelly in Broad-Street, in Wapping, MDCCXXIV. [1724]
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The modern navigator's compleat tutor [electronic resource] : or, a treatise of the whole art of navigation in its theory and practice, curiosity and utility. Containing I. Domestick or Coasting Navigation, Sundry Notes of the Moon's Motions, Calender, Tides, &c. II. Theoretical Navigation, by Various Methods, viz. Geometrical, Logarithmetical, Ins...
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