Norwood's system of navigation: : teaching the whole art, in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath been hitherto done. Shewing, the projection of the plain scale: the sphere in plaino: astronomical problems useful in navigation: traverse tables: right lin'd triangles ... The description and use of a new instrument called encyclologium, or the sliding cirlces: which, with ease, resolves all questions of proportion, trigonometry, arithmetick, square and cube root, gunnery, mesuration and dyalling / by Matthew Norwood, teacher of mathematical arts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norwood, Matthew.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--England--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Navigation--Tables--Early works to 1800.

Geometry--England--Early works to 1800.

Geometry.

England.

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: teaching the whole art, in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath been hitherto done

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for H. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill; and T. Wall, next the Tolzey in Bristol, 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.

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

Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: Christ Church (University of Oxford). Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2982:14) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) N1346

Contains:

Of gunnery : so much of that art is absolutely necessary for a sea-man to know.

Use of the tables of logarithms.

Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes.

Triangular canon logarithmical, or A table of artificial sines.

Table of artificial sines.

Encyclologium, or, The sliding circles.

Sliding circles.

OCLC:

690988920

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