The practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant. : Being a complete system of practical navigation, improved, and rendered easy to any common capacity. The whole exemplified in a journal kept from London to Madeira, and back to England. Wherein IS Shewn, How to allow for Lee-Way, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Set of the Currents, &c. and to correct the dead Reckoning by an Observation, in all Cases. The Method of Mooring, Unmooring, and Working a Ship in all difficult Cases at Sea, on a Lee Shore, or coming into Harbour. The Manner of Managing the great Guns; of Forming the Line; of an Engagement at Sea; and of Surveying Coasts and Harbours; with an Explanation of the Sea Terms. The new Method of finding the Latitude by two Altitudes of the Sun, or by the Planets; and of finding the Longitude by the Moon's Distance from the Sun or a fixed Star. To which are added, the tables of differenc of latitude and departure to 300 Miles Distance; New Solar Tables; the Table of Natural Sines; a new Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places, according to the latest Observations; a Table shewing the Times of the rising and setting of the Sun, Moon, fixed Stars, and Planets; and all other tables useful at sea. Constructed upon a new plan. By John Hamilton Moore, Formerly Teacher of the Mathematics in the Royal Navy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nautical astronomy.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

xi pages, 5 unnumbered pages,302 pages, 174 unnumbered pages,plates : illustrations,maps ; 8⁰

Edition:

The sixth edition. Carefully corrected, and greatly enlarged by the author. In this edition are added two copper plates; one shewing the solar system, the other the terms of geography at one view.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for and sold by B. Law , in Ave Maria Lane ; G. Robinson, in Pater-Noster Row, and the author at No. 127, in the Minories, near Tower Hill, M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Braces in imprint.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Libraries.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N20493.

Access Restriction:

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