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Record Nr.

UNISA996396010503316

Autore

Colson Nathaniel <fl. 1674.>

Titolo

The mariners new kalendar [[electronic resource] ] : Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry with the extraction of the square and cube roots.  Also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high water, with table for the same.  Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension.  Of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars.  Of the latitude and longitude of places.  A large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse.  Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, forestaff and nocturnal.  The problems of plain-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms and by Gunter's scale.  A rutter for the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, France &c.  And the soundings coming into the channel.  With directions for sailing into some principal harbours / / by Nathaniel Colson, student in mathematicks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by J.D. for Richard Mount at the antient [sic] shop at the Postern on Tower-Hill where you may have all sorts of mathematical and sea-books, 1697

Descrizione fisica

[1], 152 p. : ill

Soggetti

Ephemerides

Nautical almanacs

Navigation

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A large and very useful table of difference of latitude & departure ..." has separate t.p. with continuous pagination and register.

Advertisement: "Mathematical and sea-books, printed for Richard Mount" --Leaf proceding t.p.

Reproduction of original in: New York Public Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0103