The mariner's jewel : or, a pocket companion for the ingenious. Containing decimal arithmetick; extraction of the square root; to know the burthen, and how to rig a ship; with an Easy and Exact Method for all Gunners, Carpenters, and Boatswanes, whereby to know the Expence of their Stores every Month, and what they have Remaining; with Proper Directions for making of Masts and Yards according to Proportion; With a new List of the Royal Navy; A General Pay-Table for all Degrees of Men; An Abstract of Parliament for the Encouragement of Seamen, with Her Majesty's Approbation hereto; A Guide for Pursers and Stewards; The most usual Terms at Sea explain'd, with Directions how to work a Ship at Sea; And a Compendium of Sea-Gunnery; With several other things needful to be understood by all Sorts of Sea-Faring Men. By James Love, Mathematician.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Love, James (Mathematician)

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic.

Shippers' guides--Early works to 1800.

Shippers' guides.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

164 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 12⁰

Edition:

The sixth edition, corrected & enlarged.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for H. and J. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1724.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With an initial leaf of advertisements.

The last two leaves contain the contents and advertisements.

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 British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T113072.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.