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 [electronic resource].
1785
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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 [electronic resource].
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Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.
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Mariners new kalendar
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London : printed for Messrs. Mount and Page, on Tower-Hill, 1785.
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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136p. ; 4⁰.
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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.
At the bottom of title page: Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Libraries.
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English Short Title Catalog, N21778.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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