A treatise on ship-building and navigation. [electronic resource] : In three parts wherein the theory, practice, and application of the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With The Construction and Use of a new invented Shipwright's Sector, for readily laying down and delineating Ships, whether of similar or dissimilar Forms. Also Tables of the Sun's Declination, of Meridional Parts, of difference of Latitude and Departure, of Logarithms, and of artificial Sines, Tangents and Secants. By Mungo Murray. Shipwright, in his Majesty's Yard, Deptford. To which is added by way of appendix, and English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, Mem. of the R. Acad. of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Surveyor General of the French Marine. The whole illustrated with eighteen Copper Plates.
1754
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A treatise on ship-building and navigation. [electronic resource] : In three parts wherein the theory, practice, and application of the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With The Construction and Use of a new invented Shipwright's Sector, for readily laying down and delineating Ships, whether of similar or dissimilar Forms. Also Tables of the Sun's Declination, of Meridional Parts, of difference of Latitude and Departure, of Logarithms, and of artificial Sines, Tangents and Secants. By Mungo Murray. Shipwright, in his Majesty's Yard, Deptford. To which is added by way of appendix, and English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, Mem. of the R. Acad. of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Surveyor General of the French Marine. The whole illustrated with eighteen Copper Plates.
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London : printed by D. Henry and R. Cave, for the author; and sold by A. Millar, in the Strand; J. Scott, in Exchange-Alley; T. Jeffreys, at the Corner of St Martin's Lane, Charing-Cross; Mess. Greig and Campbell, at Union-Stairs, and by the author, at his house at Deptford, M,DCC,LIV. [1754]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[4],iv,[4],268,73,[1];[4],70,[4]p.,plates ; 4⁰.
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'The elements of naval architecture: .. By M. Duhamel du Monceau' has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.
The two final leaves comprise 'An explication of the signs and characters' and errata.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
The two final leaves comprise 'An explication of the signs and characters' and errata.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T149899.
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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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