The seaman's complete daily assistant : being an easy and correct method of keeping a journal at sea. Containing Rules for working the Cases in Plain, Middle Latitude, and Mercator's Sailing, by the Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure. - And for finding the Latitude, Longitude, Amplitude, and Azimuth, by Observation. Illustrated by a sufficient Number of Examples. Likewise, Rules shewing how the Allowances are to be made for Lee-Way, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Setting of the Currents, &c. - And to correct the Dead Reckoning by an Observation, in all Cases. The new Method of finding the Latitude by two Altitudes of the Sun; and the finding the Longitude by the the Moon's Distance from the Sun, or a fixed Star; rendered easy to any common Capacity. To which are added, The Tables of Difference of Latitude and Departure to 300 Miles Distance; the New Solar Tables and Table of Natural Sines; with a larger and more correct Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places, than any hitherto published; together with all the Tables necessary for the Seaman's Use in working a Day's Work at Sea. The whole constructed upon a new plan. By John Hamilton Moore, Author of the Practical Navigator, And formerly of the Royal Navy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Handbooks, manuals, etc--1782.

Navigation.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

iv,100 pages, 100 unnumbered pages,3-6 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for and sold by B. Law , in Ave Maria Lane ; G. Robinson, in Pater-Noster Row, Messrs. Sayer and Bennett, in Fleet-Street, and the author at No. 104, in the Minories, near Tower Hill, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With log tables and a final advertisement leaf.

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, N21369.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.