The sea-man's practice : Containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compass of the Earth and sea, and the quantity of degree in our English measures. Also an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning or journal at sea, in any kind or manner of sailing. With certain tables and other rules used in navigation. As also the plotting and surveying of places: the latitude of the principal places in England: the variation of the compass: the finding of the currents at sea, and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

126 pages,plates,tables ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Richard Mount, at the Ancient Shop at the Postern, on Tower-Hill, 1702.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

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, N36208.

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