The mariners new calendar. [electronic resource] : Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots; also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension. Of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longtitude of places. A large table of difference of latitudeand departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff and nocturnal. The problems of plain-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by Gunter's scale. A tide table. The courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. and the soundings coming into the channel. With directions for sailing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in the mathematicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.

Standardized Title:

Mariners new kalendar

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nautical almanacs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Mariners new calendar

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill. 1726. Where you may have all sorts of mathematical and sea-books, 1726.

Notes:

Half-title: 'The mariners new kalendar'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T228782.

OCLC:

510755388