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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, 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 : the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of miridional parts : likewise a new traverse-table and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea : also, a table of 10,000 logarithms and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants / by John Seller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.
- 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.
- Navigation--Tables--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([5], 264, [128] p., 6 leaves of plates (some fold.) ) ill., map, charts.
- Other Title:
- Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page, 1718.
- Notes:
- Added, engr. t.-p.
- "Very much enlarged by Mr. John Colson, deceas'd." Cf."To the mariners of Great Britain and Ireland," signed R. Mount.
- Sabin no. 79030.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG04-B526
- OCLC:
- 85800893
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