An epitome of the art of navigation. : Containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, and their Use and Application in Plain Sailing, Mercator's Sailing, and Great Circle Sailing, as also in Astronomy and Geography, and Rules for finding the Variation of the Compass, and correcting the Course. Together with tables of the sun and stars Right Ascension and Declination, Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places, Of Meridional Parts. Likewise a Traverse Table; and other Things very useful in the Art of Navigation. And the logarithm sines and tangents, with the Logarithms of Natural Numbers, from 1 to 10000, according to those exact Tables formerly set forth, by Henry Gellibrand. Corrected and enlarged with many additions, by James Atkinson, Teacher of Navigation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Epitome of navigation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Trigonometry--Tables--Early works to 1800.

Trigonometry.

Genre:

Tables.

Physical Description:

76 pages, 452 unnumbered pages,plates ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Richard Mount, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, 1712.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

The logarithm sines and tangents have no pagination and a separate titlepage reading: 'A triangular canon logarithmical: or, a table of artificial sines and tangents, .. With a table of logarithms ..' with the imprint: 'London, printed for R. Mount, 1712'.

The register is continuous.

First issued as 'Epitome of navigation'.

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 Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N9275.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.