The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension: Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars: Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places: A large Table of Difference of Latitude and De parture, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tice Table: The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings at coming into the Channel: With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematics. The whole revised, and adjusted to the new stile by William Mountaine, F.R.S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.

Standardized Title:

Mariners new kalendar

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic.

Nautical almanacs--Early works to 1800.

Nautical almanacs.

Nautical astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Nautical astronomy.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136p. )

Other Title:

Mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots

The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Messrs. Mount and Page, on Tower-Hill, 1785.

Notes:

With a half-title.

At the bottom of title page: Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Libraries.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N21778.

OCLC:

642164988