Navigation new modell'd [electronic resource] : or, a treatise of geometrical trigonometrical arithmetical instrumental and practical navigation. Teaching, How to keep a Reckoning, both in Latitude and Longitude, without Tables or Instruments, by a New Method never yet published: Illustrated with Practical Examples of keeping a Journal, and correcting it by an Observation; with a new Way of Finding the Variation, and Time of High-Water at any known Port. Together with All Necessary Tables, and the Projection of the Sphere Orthographick and Stereographick, Also Current Sailing, with other Pleasant Questions, and how to correct the Longitude by a Solar Observation. The second edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson, Author of the London Accomptant, Trigonometry Improv'd, and other Mathematical Treatises.
1723
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Navigation new modell'd [electronic resource] : or, a treatise of geometrical trigonometrical arithmetical instrumental and practical navigation. Teaching, How to keep a Reckoning, both in Latitude and Longitude, without Tables or Instruments, by a New Method never yet published: Illustrated with Practical Examples of keeping a Journal, and correcting it by an Observation; with a new Way of Finding the Variation, and Time of High-Water at any known Port. Together with All Necessary Tables, and the Projection of the Sphere Orthographick and Stereographick, Also Current Sailing, with other Pleasant Questions, and how to correct the Longitude by a Solar Observation. The second edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson, Author of the London Accomptant, Trigonometry Improv'd, and other Mathematical Treatises.
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Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.
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London : printed for T. Page and W. Mount, on Towerhill; Ben. Pickard, at the Three Bibles in the Minories; and W. Meadows, at the Angel, near the Fleece Tavern in Cornhill, MDCCXXIII. [1723]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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xvi,256,253,[3]p.,plates ; 8⁰.
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'A table of difference of latitude & departure in minutes and tenth parts' has separate pagination.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T155104.
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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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