The British mariner's guide : Containing, complete and easy instructions for the discovery of the longitude at sea and land, within a Degree, by Observations of the Distance of the Moon from the Sun and Stars, taken with Hadley's Quadrant. To which are added, An Appendix, containing a Variety of interesting Rules and Directions, tending to the Improvement of Practical Navigation in general. And a Sett of correct Astronomical tables. By Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Nautical astronomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],x,[6],130,[2],xxxv,[1]p. )

Other Title:

British mariner's guide.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author; and sold by J. Nourse, in the Strand; Mess. Mount and Page, on Tower-Hill; and Mess. Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXIII. [1763]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T58799.

OCLC:

642637501