Navigation new modelled [electronic resource] : Or, 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, calculated to the new stile, 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 eighth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson.
1761
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Navigation new modelled [electronic resource] : Or, 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, calculated to the new stile, 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 eighth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson.
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Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.
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London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son on Tower-Hill, M.DCC.LXI. [1761]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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xvi,527,[1]p. ; 8⁰.
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Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
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English Short Title Catalog, N41685.
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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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