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Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems : the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, plain mercator, 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 : 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 10,000 logarithms and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants.
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Added, engr. t.-p. "Very much enlarged by Mr. John Colson, deceas'd." Cf."To the mariners of Great Britain and Ireland," signed R. Mount. Book.
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