A compleat system of navigation : In Two Parts. I. Atkinson's Epitome. II. Navigation New Modell'd: Or, The Whole Art performed, without Tables or Instruments, by a New Method, never yet published: Illustrated with Practical Examples of keeping a Journal, and correcting by an Observation; with a New Way of finding the Variation, and Time of High-Water, at any known Port. With Proper and Correct Tables, viz. 1. A Table of the Sun's Right Ascension. 2. A Table of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal fixed Stars. 3. A Table of the Sun's Declination, calculated for 20 years. 4. A Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Islands, in the World. 5. A Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. 6. A Table shewing the First Day of March, Epact, Dominical Letter; with a Perpetual Almanack. Likewise the Use and Description of the Quadrant, Cross-Staff, and Nocturnal. By H. Wilson. To which is added, for the Help of young Seamen The Draught of a Ship, with all her Rigging: Every rope particularly described by its proper Name: and also a Dictionary, Explaining all the Terms used at Sea, in an Alphabetical Order.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, James, fl. 1667-1715.

Contributor:

Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Tables--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435,184p.,plates )

Other Title:

Compleat system of navigation

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed by Boulter Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, M,DCCLXVII. [1767]

Notes:

'A table of logarithms' with separate pagination. With separate titlepages for each part.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T186114.

OCLC:

642510170