Epitome of the art of navigation : or, a short, easy and methodical way to become a compleat navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plain and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry, Plain and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental, and Logarithmic; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plain, Mercator's and Great-Circle-Sailing, Geography, Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plain-Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship's Way. A Traverse-Table; a Table of Meridional Parts; a Table of 10,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully Corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The whole revis'd and corrected, with the utmost care, by William Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, James, fl. 1667-1715.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447,[1]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Epitome of the art of navigation

Place of Publication:

London : printed for William Mount and Thomas Page, on Tower-Hill, M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]

Notes:

Half-title: 'Atkinson's Epitome of the art of navigation'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T86525.

OCLC:

642718327