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The mariners compass rectified : containing tables shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with: and tables of amplitude. All which tables are calculated from the equinoctial to 60 deg. of latitude. Hereunto is added an appendix, containing the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. With a table of the latitude and longitude of places: composed after a new order. By Andrew Wakely, Math. Carefully corrected, altered, and very much enlarged, with many useful additions, by Ja. Atkinson, teacher of the mathematicks.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 2319:6.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Wakely, Andrew.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2319:6.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navigation--Early works to 1800.
- Navigation.
- Nautical astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical astronomy.
- Nautical instruments--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical instruments.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages, 1 unnumbered page : tables
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by J.D. for Richard Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill, where you may have all sorts of Sea-Books, 1699.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of original in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1995. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2319:6). s1995 miun a
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) W274A
- OCLC:
- 83259675
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