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Record Nr.

UNISA996394312703316

Autore

Saltonstall Charles <fl. 1642.>

Titolo

The navigator [[electronic resource] ] : shewing and explaining all the chiefe principles and parts both theoretick and practick, that are contained in the famous art of navigation. With a new and admirable way of sayling by the arch of one of the greatest circles. Containing excellent tables most exactly calculated, shewing the true proportion of all parallels in respect of the M. dian. With the proper phrases used in working of a ship according to all weathers. With a word of advice to all sea-men not to medle with the plane charts used in our time, their deceipts discovered, and a way to prove the projection of any plain chart; how to make the log-line according to a true degree in the meridian. The third edition corrected and enlarged. By Captain Charles Saltonstall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by R. and W. Leybourn for George Hurlock, and are to be sold at his shop at Magnus Church[-yard, 1658]

Descrizione fisica

[14], 80, [3], 80-124, [2] p. : ill

Soggetti

Navigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title on C1r reads: How to prove any plane chart, whether it be of this deceitful projection or not.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Text and register are continuous despite pagination.

Title page cropped at foot with partial loss of imprint; publication date supplied by Wing.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018