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Practical navigation : or an introduction to the whole art, containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles. Plain, Mercator, great circle sailing; and Astronomical Problems. The Use of divers Instruments; as also of the Plain Chart, Mercator's Chart, and both Globes. Sundry Useful Tables in Navigation: and a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the Logarithm Sines, Tangents, and Secants. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Logarithms.
Navigation--Tables.
Navigation.
Navigation--Early works to 1800.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([8],160,177-272,[136]p., VIII 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, MDCCXL [1711]
Notes:
Text continuous despite pagination.
'A table of logarithms' has a separate titlepage, dated 1708.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, N12113.
OCLC:
642117930

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