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The mariner's compass rectified [electronic resource] : Containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with: and tables of amplitude. All which tables are calculated from the equinoctial to 60 degrees of latitude, &c. With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation: also a table of the latitude and longitude of places. By Andrew Wakely, math. Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged with many useful additions. By J. Atkinson, teacher of the mathematics.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wakely, Andrew.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Compass.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (272p. ) ill. ;
Other Title:
Mariner's compass rectified
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-hill, where you may have all sorts of sea-books, 1747.
Notes:
With a half-title.
Horizontal chain lines.
In this edition, the pagination is continuous.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T225305.
OCLC:
510714260

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