The mariners new kalendar : Containing the principles of arithmetic and 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 Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude 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. The Problems of Plain-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 coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ephemerides.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Navigation--Tables.

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Mariners new kalendar

Place of Publication:

London : printed by W. and J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, 1749. Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books, [1749]

Notes:

With a half-title.

Vertical chain lines.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T134822.

OCLC:

642392177