The practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant : being a complete system of practical navigation, improved and rendered easy to the meanest capacity : wherein is shewn how to allow for variation, lee-way, heave of the sea ... : the whole exemplified in a journal kept from London to Madeira, and back again to England : to which is added, the substance of a young officer's examination respecting the management of a ship ... : method of surveying sea coasts ... : the new method of finding the longitude by the moon's distance from the sun, or a fixed star : the new method of finding the latitude by two altitudes of the sun ... : the whole constructed upon a new and methodical plan / by John Hamilton Moore ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Nautical astronomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, [3], 304, [128] p. ) incl. tables, diagrs., fold. pl., fold. map ;

Other Title:

Practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for B. Law [etc.], 1776.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Sabin no. 50412.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG324139-B

OCLC:

85890109