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The sea-man's practice [electronic resource] : Containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compass of the Earth and sea, and the quantity of degree in our English measures. Also an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning or journal at sea, in any kind or manner of sailing. With certain tables and other rules used in navigation. As also the plotting and surveying of places: the latitude of the principal places in England: the variation of the compass: the finding of the currents at sea, and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navigation--Early works to 1800.
- Navigation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (126p.,plates,tables )
- Other Title:
- Sea-man's practice
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Richard Mount, at the Ancient Shop at the Postern, on Tower-Hill, 1702.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N36208.
- OCLC:
- 508173230
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