Practical navigation : or an introduction to the whole art, Containing many useful Geometrical Definitions and Problems; The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles; Plain Mercator, and Great-Circle Sailing; Sundry useful Problems in Astronomy; The Use of Instruments; The Azimuth-Compass and Ring-Dial. The Fore Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plian Scale, Gunter's Scale, Plain-Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, and Virtues of the Loadstone. Useful Tables of the Moon's Age, of the Tides, of the Sun's Place, Declination, and Right Ascension; of the Stars Right Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Meridional Parts; Likewise a new Traverse-Table, and the Use thereof in keeping a Reckoning at Sea: Also a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm Sines, Tangents, and Secants, All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],64,73-264,[128]p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Practical navigation

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Page, W. and F. Mount, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, MDCCXXIII. [1723]

Notes:

With a half-title.- Text continuous despite pagination.

The final [128]p. include tables of logarithms.

Reproduction of original from William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N12280.

OCLC:

642118981