Trignometrie, or, The doctrine of triangles : divided into two books, the first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles, the second of spherical, with the grounds and demonstrations thereof : both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithms, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath been formerly taught : whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen) a treatise of the application thereof, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with exact tables of the suns declination, newly calculated, and tables of the right ascension and declination of some eminent fixed stars, with the true times of the coming to the meridian at four of the clock in the morning : fitted for the present season, and may serve for many years without any alteration : also other necessary tables used in navigation / by Richard Norwood ...

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 723:6.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trigonometry--Tables.

Trigonometry.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Logarithms.

Genre:

Tables.

Tables (Data)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 165, that is, 173 pages, 188 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

This eight edition being diligently corrected, in divers difficult places explained, new tables of the stars right ascensions and declinations added, and the whole work very much enlarged by the author himself.

Other Title:

Doctrine of triangles.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by R. W. for William Fisher ..., T. Passenger ..., and R. Smith ..., 1685.

Notes:

Advertisement: p. [188] at end.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1977. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 723:6)

Cited in:

Wing N1377

Arber's Term cat. II 108

OCLC:

12958920