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Practical navigation: or, An introduction to that whole art : Containing 1. Several definitions in geometry, astronomy, geography, and navigation. 2. A new and exact kalender, shewing the suns declination and true place, for 60 years. 3. And an almanack of the moon for eight years. 4. The calculation of triangles, both plain and spherical, and their application in navigation. 5. The form of keeping a journal, or sea reckoning. 6. Several useful tables, as tables of meridonal parts; latitudes and longitudes of places, &c. 7. The original invention of the mariners compass. 8. A discourse of the variation, and the natural causes thereof. 9. The description and use of the most necessary instruments in navigation, as the cross-staff, quadrant, azimuth compass, &c. the inclinatory needle, to find the latitude of a place without observation of sun or stars. 10. With an appendix, shewing the secret virtues of the load-stone. By John Seller, compass-maker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seller, John, active 1658-1698.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navigation--Tables--Early works to 1800.
- Navigation.
- Nautical instruments--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical instruments.
- Nautical almanacs--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical almanacs.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Tables (Data)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 311 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, tables
- Other Title:
- Practical navigation
- Introduction to the whole art.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author, at his shop, at the sign of the Mariners Compass, at the Hermitage in Wapping; and by John Wingfield, at his shop, right against St. Ol[ives] Church in Crutched Friers, 1669.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- With an additional title page, engraved.
- Includes final errata page.
- Copy has print show-through.
- Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2077:20) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd edition) S2481.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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