Norwood's system of navigation : teaching the whole art in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath hitherto been done : shewing, the projection of the plain scale, the sphere in plaino, astronomical problems useful in navigation, traverse tables, right lin'd triangles, geometrically, by tables of sines, tangents, logarithms, and by Gunter's ruler, applied to plain and Mercator's sailing : illustrated by schemes on copper-plates ... : the description and use of a new instrument, called encyclologium, or the sliding circles, which, with ease, resolves all questions of proportion, trigonometry, arithmetick, square and cube root, gunnery, mensuration, and dyalling / by Matthew Norwood ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norwood, Matthew.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Navigation--Tables.

Geometry--Early works to 1800.

Geometry.

Genre:

Tables.

Tables (Data)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 unnumbered pages, 384, 11 pages, 62 unnumbered pages, 93 unnumbered pages, 47 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations

Other Title:

System of navigation

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for H. Sawbridge, T. Wall, T. Guy, T. Parkhurst, J. Robinson, H. White, T. Malthus, and C. Conyers, 1685.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Includes: Of gunnery : so much of that art is absolutely necessary for a sea-man to know, on pages 369-384.

Includes: The use of the tables of logarithms, on pages 1-11 (third sequence).

"A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes, for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 1000. London : Printed by John Gain, 1685" on [62] pages has special t.p.

"A triangular canon logarithmical, or A table of artificial sines, tangents, and the complements arithmetical of sines ... London : Printed by J. Gain in Upper Moor-Fields, next door but one to the Flying Horse, 1685" on [93] pages has special t.p.

Includes: Encyclologium, or, The sliding circles, on 47 pages at end.

Advertisement: pages [16] at beginning.

"Arrata" [sic] on pages 47 at end.

Imperfect: stained and with print show-through.

Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2942:3) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition), N1346 variant

Contains:

Of gunnery.

Use of the tables of logarithms.

Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes.

Triangular canon logarithmical.

Table of artificial sines, tangents, and the complements arithmetical of sines.

Encyclologium.

Sliding circles.

OCLC:

318212031

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