Practical navigation, or an, Introduction to the whole art /
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| Idioma: | Ingles |
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London :
Printed for Thomas Page, and William Mount,
1730
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- Contenido: Many useful geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine plain and spherical triangles; plain, mercator , and great-circle sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass and rig-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 rigth ascension; of the star's right ascension and declination; thelatitude and longitude of places, and a table of meridiona parts; like keeping a reckoning at sea: also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants. All carefull corrected with many useful additions