The seaman's practice : containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: Namely, Touching the Compass of the Earth and Sea, and the Quantity of a Degree in our English Measures. Also An exact Method or Form of keeping a Reckoning or Journal at Sea, in any kind or manner of Sailing. With certain Tables and other Rules used in Navigation. The Latitude of the Principal Places in England: The Variation of the Compass: The finding of the Currents at Sea, and what Allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, Reader of the Mathematicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compass.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Seaman's practice

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Richard Mount, in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill, MDCCXII. [1712]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N23159.

OCLC:

642167953