The mariner's compass rectified [electronic resource] : Containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with: and tables of amplitude. All which tables are calculated from the equinoctial to 60 degrees of latitude, &c. With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation: also a table of the latitude and longitude of places. By Andrew Wakely, math. Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged with many useful additions. By J. Atkinson, teacher of the mathematics.
1747
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The mariner's compass rectified [electronic resource] : Containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with: and tables of amplitude. All which tables are calculated from the equinoctial to 60 degrees of latitude, &c. With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation: also a table of the latitude and longitude of places. By Andrew Wakely, math. Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged with many useful additions. By J. Atkinson, teacher of the mathematics.
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Wakely, Andrew.
Publication Details
London : Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-hill, where you may have all sorts of sea-books, 1747.
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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272p. : ill. ; 8⁰.
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With a half-title.
Horizontal chain lines.
In this edition, the pagination is continuous.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Horizontal chain lines.
In this edition, the pagination is continuous.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T225305.
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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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