The mariner's mirror : or, a new treatise on navigation, in theory and practice. Part I. Contains the principles of navigation, in a Method more universal than any extant, including the fundamental Theorems of Nautical Astronomy; Correction of the Lunar Parallax; Tables of Meridional Parts adapted to the Figure of the Earth; with a new Construction of several Nautical Scales, and other Instruments. Part II. A Method of Finding the Longitude of a Ship at Sea; and The Place and Latitude of the Moon by Interpolation. Part III. A System of Logarithms in all the different Kinds, with their Applications; illustrated by the Logistic Curve at large; with the Construction and Delineation of all the Logarithmic Lines and Scales. Part IV. The young trigonometer's new guide; with Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained. Illustrated with eight copper-plates. By Benjamin Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logarithms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,[2],61[i.e.65],[1]32viii,54[3],vi-viii,[4],70p.,plates )

Other Title:

Mariner's mirror

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53. Fleet-Street, [1782]

Notes:

Parts II-IV have separate titlepages, dated 1782, bearing the imprint : "Sold by Robert Sayer and John Bennett", and separate pagination and register.

Part I is a reissue of the 1768 edition with a new titlepage and part titlepage.

Part II is a reissue of the 1769 edition with a new titlepage.

Part III is a reissue of the 1772 edition with a new titlepage.

Part IV is a reissue of the 1772 edition of 'The young trigonometer's new guide' with new titlepage and list of contents.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T122824.

OCLC:

642335333