Practical navigation; or, An introduction to the whole art

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• Introduction to the whole art.

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• Practical navigation; or, An introduction to the whole art: Containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles; plain Mercator, and great-circle-sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass; ring-dyal; variation compass; the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal; the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical quadrant; plain chart; Mercator's-chart; both globes; the inclinatory-needle, and virtues of the load-stone; useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension; of the stars right-ascension and declination; the latitude and longitude of places; and a table of meridional parts; likewise a new traverse-table, and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea: also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the log, sines, tangents and secantsPrinted by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author at the Hermitage in Wapping, by W. Fisher at the Postern-gate near Tower-Hill, by R. Boulter at the Turks-Head in Cornhil, by T. Passenger at the three Bibles on London-Bridg, and R. Smith, at the Bible in Cornhil1680-01-01
• Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole artPrinted by John Darby, and are to be sold by the author, and John Wingfield1672-01-01
• Practical navigation.Printed by J.D. for the author ... and Richard Mount ...1694-01-01
• Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole artPrinted for Richard Mount ... and Jeremiah Seller ...1699-01-01
• Practical navigation; or An introduction to the whole art ...Printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page, in Postern-row, on Tower-hill1711-01-01
• Practical navigation; or An introduction, to the whole art ...Printed for R. and W. Mount, and T. Page, in Postern-row, on Tower-hill1717-01-01