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The sea-man's grammar and dictionary : explaining all the difficult terms in navigation: and the practical navigator and gunner: in two parts. I. Most plain and easy directions, to build, rigg, yard, and mast any ship whatsoever. With the manner of working of a ship in all weathers:-And how to manage a fight at sea:-Also the charge and duty of every officer in a ship, and their shares-and the use of the petty-tally. II An abstract of the art of gunnery, (or shooting in great ordnance and morter-pieces): wherein the principles of that art are plainly taught, both by arithmetical calculation, and by tables ready calculated-with the compositions for the making of several fire-works useful in war, both at sea and land.-And an apendix how by several geometrical ways to take geights, depths, and distances, accessible or inaccessible. By Captain John Smith, sometimes Governour of Virginia, and Admiral of New England. Now much amplified and enlarged, ... made by several experienced navigators and gunners.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, John, 1580-1631.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval art and science--Early works to 1800.
- Naval art and science.
- Navigation--Early works to 1800.
- Navigation.
- Gunnery--Early works to 1800.
- Gunnery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 unnumbered pages, 136, 129-144, 133-137, 130-131, pages 140, 153-163 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1699.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Previously published as: An accidence for the sea. 1626; an enlarged edition appeared in 1627, titled : A sea grammar.
- Text is continuous despite pagination.
- Reproduction of original in the John Carter Brown Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2520:8) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) S4126
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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