The Mariner's new calendar. [electronic resource] : Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical 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 ascention and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longtitude of places: a large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff and nocturnal: necessary problems in plane-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 at coming into the channel: with directions for failing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in the mathematics. The whole revis'd and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nautical almanacs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Mariner's new calendar

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son, on Tower-Hill, 1758.

Notes:

With a half-title.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N34842.

OCLC:

508158044