The navigator's veni-mecum, or a complete system of the art of navigation; containing every thing necessary to be known in Arithmetic, Geometry, and Trigonometry, to qualify a person for keeping an accurate, rational, and true account of a ship's way at sea. And also how to direct her to any Port desired. To which are added traverse tables, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, &c. which render this work complete and independent. By J. Draper Teacher of the Mathematicks, and Author of the Young Student's Pocket Companion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Draper, John, fl. 1767-1772.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Ship handling--Early works to 1800.

Ship handling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi,[2],183,[61]p., plate )

Other Title:

Navigator's veni-mecum,

Place of Publication:

Whitehaven : printed and sold by Allason Foster; also sold by M. Little; J. Coupland; and T. Davis; and by the author, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

Notes:

The final sixty-one unnumbered pages contain tables, an advertisement, and errata.

Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T209031.

OCLC:

642530416