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 Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tide 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 revis'd and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S [electronic resource].
1764
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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 Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tide 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 revis'd and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S [electronic resource].
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Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.
Uniform Title
Mariners new kalendar
Publication Details
London : printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, 1764.
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
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136p. : ill. ; 4⁰.
Note
'A large and very useful table of difference of latitude and departure' has a separate titlepage; pagination and register are continuous.
At bottom of title page: Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books.
With a half-title.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
At bottom of title page: Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books.
With a half-title.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T130146.
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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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