The navigator's guide, to The Oriental or Indian Seas: or, the description and use of a variation chart of the magnetic needle, designed for shewing the longitude, throughout the principal parts of the Atlantic, Ethiopic, and Southern Oceans; Within a degree, or sixty miles. With an Introductory Discourse, concerning the Discovery of the Magnetic Variation, the finding of the Longitude thereby, and several useful Tables. By S. Dunn, Teacher of Mathematics, London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Samuel, 1723-1794.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Longitude--Early works to 1800.

Longitude.

Nautical astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Nautical astronomy.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24p. )

Other Title:

Navigator's guide,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author; and sold by him. Likewise sold by H. Gregory, Leadenhall-Street; T. Newman, in Exeter Change; A. Smith, near Charing Cross; Mathematical Instrument-Makers, [1775]

Notes:

Dedication dated: 10 Nov. 1775.

Advertisement at bottom of title page: "At which Places, A Treatise of practical astronomy, nearly bound, 12s. by the same Author, may be had. The Variation Chart, and Mercator's Chart, on three Sheets of Imperial Paper, with the Description and Use of them, 15s."

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T58822.

OCLC:

642637531