Epitomy of navigation, [electronic resource] : Containing plain and easy rules, for the working all plain triangles, and their application to plain, traverse, oblique, Mercator and middle latitude sailing; with spherical trigonometry in all its cases, and its application to all the necessary problems in astronomy. To which is added, all necessary tables of the sun's declination, latitude and departure, meridional parts, latitude and longitude of places, &c. Concluding with a compleat table of logarithms, sines, tangents, &c. With the use of all the tables illustrated by examples. First written by Gellibrand, Norwood, and Jones; and now collected and digested into one compendium of navigation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],160[144]p.,III plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Epitomy of navigation,

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page, at the Postern, on Tower-Hill, 1735.

Notes:

'A table of logarithms, for numbers increasing in their natural order, from an unit 10000. With a table of artificial sines tangents and secants, the radius 10,000000. The third edition corrected.' has separate titlepage and register, and was also issued separately.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T140389.

OCLC:

508906890