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Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems, the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, plain Mercator, and great-circle-sailing, sundry useful problems in astronomy, the use of instruments, the azimuth-compass, ring-dyal, variation-compass, the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal, the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical-quadrant, plain-chart, mercators-chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and vertues of the load-stone, useful tables of the Moon's age, of the tydes, of the Sun's place, declination, and right-ascention, of the stars right-ascention and declination, the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of meridional parts, likewise a new traverse-table, and use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea, also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the log sines, tangents and secants / by John Seller, hydrographer to the King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seller, John, active 1658-1698.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nautical almanacs--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical almanacs.
- Nautical instruments--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical instruments.
- Navigation--Tables--Early works to 1800.
- Navigation.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Tables (Data)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (9 unnumbered pages, 328, 65-72, 335-350 pages, 148 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- The third edition, enlarged.
- Other Title:
- Introduction to the whole art
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by J. Darby, and are to sold by the author at the Hermitage in Wapping, by William Fisher at the Postern-gate near Tower-hill, and by Eliz. Hurlock at the Rose at the West-end of St. Pauls, anno 1676.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Edition statement immediately follows title.
- With an added engraved title page (plate).
- With divisional title pages: "Triangular canon logarithmical: or, a table of artificial sines, tangents, secants ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1673." and "Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes: for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 10000 ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1672.".
- Frontis signed by R. White, sculp.
- Signatures: A-Tt4 Uu1 ii4 Xx4 Zz4 ll-eee4 fff2.
- Irregular pagination.
- The final [148] pages are tables.
- Reproduction of original in: York Minster. Library.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 3071:1) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd edition, 1994), S2482B
- ESTC R183710
- Contains:
- Triangular canon logarithmical: or, a table of artificial sines, tangents, secants.
- Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes: for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 10000.
- OCLC:
- 907645735
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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