The mariner's instructor : Being an easy and expeditious method, whereby a master may teach the art of navigation in a short time: design'd chiefly for those persons who cannot spare more time in learning it than is absolutely necessary. Containing the gregorian or new calendar: the description and use of the plain and gunter's scale; geometrical problems: plain, traverse, and mercator's sailing. Parallel, middle latitude, oblique, and current sailing: rules an directions to work an observation: the method of finding the variation of the compass by the sun's azimuth and amplitude. Together with the plain and Mercator's charts, with directions how to prick them: as also the method of keeping a journal at sea: with rules and directions for correcting the dead-reckoning by an observation. To which are added tables of logarithms and logarithmic sines and tangents; and a useful figure for the more readily working a day's work to be enter'd in a journal. By William Puddicombe of Topsham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puddicombe, William.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Manuals (Handbooks)

Physical Description:

vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages,222 pages,IVplates : illustrations,maps ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

Exeter : Printed, (and sold) for the autho, by R. Trewman; sold also by bedwell law, in Ave-Mary-Lane, London; E. Score, and W. Grigg, Booksellers, in Exeter; J. Wallis, in Plymouth; J. Trownson, and W. Cleave, in Totness; F. Murch, in Barnstaple; W. Craven, in Dartmouth; M. Allison, in Falmouth; J. Fursman, in Ashburton; A. Brown, in Honiston; also by the author at Topsham; and all booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

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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 Cambridge University Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T171804.

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