Practical navigation, or an introduction to the whole art, containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems; The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles; Plain, Mercator, and Great-Circle Sailing; Sundry useful Problems in Astronomy; The Use of Instruments; The Azimuth-Compass and Ring - Dial. The Fore-Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plain - Scale, Gunter's - Scale, Plain - Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, and Virtues of the Loadstone. Useful Tables of the Moon's Age, of the Tides, of the Sun's Place, Declination and Right Ascension; of the Star's Right-Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Meridional Parts; Likewise a new Traverse - Table, and the Use thereof in keeping a Reckoning at Sea: Also a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm - Sines, Tangents, and Secants. All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions. 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],64,73-264,[128]p.,vi plates ) ill.,map ;

Other Title:

Practical navigation,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Thomas Page, and William Mount, in Postern Row, on Tower-Hill, MDCCXXX. [1730]

Notes:

Pagination irregular; the text and register is continuous.

Page 231 misnumbered 131.

With a half-title.

With a table of logarithms.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T122181.

OCLC:

642331127