Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator [electronic resource] : Containing, practical geometry, plane and spheric, superficial and solid; with its uses in all kinds of mensuration. Trigonometry, plane and spheric, both geometric, instrumental, and logarithmic, with its uses in navigation, viz. In plane, Mercator's, and great circle sailing, geography, astronomy, the projection of the sphere, &c. The Gregorian or new calendar, description and use of the plane-chart, Mercator's-chart, both globes, hemispheres, and divers other instruments. A new form of keeping a sea-reckoning, or account of a ship's way. A traverse table; a table of meridional parts; a table of 10,000 logarithms, and logarithmic sines, tangents and secants, carefully corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior, the whole revised and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, & F.R.S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, James, fl. 1667-1715.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457,[1]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]

Notes:

With a half-title.

Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T182809.

OCLC:

509369982