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Record Nr.

UNISA996390688503316

Autore

Norwood Matthew

Titolo

The seaman's companion [[electronic resource] ] : being a plain guide to the understanding of arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy. Applied chiefly to navigation: and furnished with a table of meridional parts, to every third minute: with excellent and easie ways of keeping a reckoning at sea, never in print before. Also, a catalogue of the longitude and latitude of the principal places in the world with other useful things. The third edition corrected and amended. By Matthew Norwood, mariner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : [print]ed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate near Tower-Hill; Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head and Ralph Smith, at the Bible in Cornhill; Thomas Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Richard Northcot, next St. Peter's-Alley in Cornhill, and at the Anchor and Mariner, on Fishstreet-Hill, [1678]

Descrizione fisica

[10], 203, [1] p., [1] leaf of folding plate : ill., tables

Soggetti

Trigonometry

Geometry

Navigation

Longitude

Astronomy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With a table of contents.

Divisional title on p. 147: A table of meridional parts.

Reproduction of the original at the Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0120