Practical navigation: or An introduction to the whole art. [electronic resource] : Containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles. Plain, mercator, great circle sailing; and astronomical problems. The use of divers instruments; as also of the plain chart, mercator's chart, and both globes. Sundry useful tables in navigation: and a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants. All carefully corrected. By John Seller, hydrographer to the king.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],160,177-246,227-230,251-254,[20],263-272[146]p.,plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Practical navigation

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by S. Powell, at the sign of the printing-press in Copper-Alley, near the Blind-Key, for G. Grierson, bookseller, at the Two Bibles in Essex-street, MDCCXIV. [1714]

Notes:

Edited by John Colson.

Text continuous despite pagination.

'A table of logarithms' has separate titlepage, London, "printed for Richard Mount", 1718, unnumbered pages and separate register.

Reproduction of original from National Library of Ireland.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T228568.

OCLC:

510754024