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 Plain 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 Miridional 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.,plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Practical navigation

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, MDCCXVIII. [1718]

Notes:

With a half-title and an additional engraved titlepage on the verso of the half-title.

Text continuous despite pagination.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N12278.

OCLC:

642118967