Navigation new modelled : Or, A treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation; teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, without tables or instruments, by a new method never yet published: illustrated with practical examples of keeping a journal, and correcting it by an observation, with a new way of finding the variation, and time of high-water at any known port. Together with all necessary tables, calculated to the new stile, and the projection of the sphere orthographic and stereographic. Also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longtitude by a solar observation. The ninth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson. Revised and corrected by William Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, and F.R.S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.

Contributor:

Mountaine, William, -1799, editor.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

xvi,425 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8⁰

Other Title:

Navigation new modell'd

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount on Tower-Hill, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]

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 Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N50127.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.