The mariner's jewel [electronic resource] : Or, A pocket companion for the ingenious. Containing decimal arithmetick; extraction of the square root; to know the burthen, and how to rig a ship; with an easie and exact method for all gunners, carpenters, and boatswains, whereby to know the expence of their stories every month, and what they have remaining; with proper directions for making of masts and yards according to proportion; with a new list of the royal navy; a general pay-table for all degrees of men; an abstract of Parliament for the encouragement of seamen, with Her Majesty's approbation thereto; a guide for pursers and stewards; the most usual terms at sea explained, with directions how to work a ship at sea; and a compendium of sea gunnery; with several other things needful to be understood by all sorts of seasaring men.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Love, James, mathematician.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

The foruth edition, corrected and enlarged by James Love, mathematician.

Other Title:

Mariner's jewel

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Alexander Sims, at the Bible in Betts's-street, Ratcliff-High-Way; and sold by Ebem. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Rich. Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill; and Jer. Seller, and Ch. price, at the Hermitage in Wapping, 1703.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T231347.

OCLC:

510784804