The mariner's compass rectified : 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 upon which they Rise and Set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun - Dials, Semidiurnal-Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of Places. By Andrew Wakeley, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the New-Stile. By William Mountaine, F.R.S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakely, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compass.

Compass--Early works to 1800.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Nautical instruments--Early works to 1800.

Nautical instruments.

Pitcairn Islands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Mariner's compass rectified

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, where you may have all Sorts of Sea Books, 1766.

Notes:

Horizontal chain lines.

With a half-title.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N4325.

OCLC:

642202963