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Record Nr.

UNISA996396100103316

Autore

Norwood Richard <1590?-1675.>

Titolo

The sea-mans practice [[electronic resource] ] : contayning a fundamentall probleme in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compasse of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measures. Also an exact method or forme of keeping a reckoning at sea, in any kinde or manner of sayling. With certayne tables and other rules usefull in navigation, as also in the plotting and surveying of places. The latitude of the principall places in England. The finding of currents at sea; and what allowance is to bee given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed [by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet] for George Hurlock, and are to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus Corner, 1637

Descrizione fisica

[12], 140 [i.e. 160] p. : tables

Soggetti

Navigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Printers' names from STC.

Includes separate title page, reading: A table for the difference of latitude, and departure from the meridian.

Pages 29-30 missing in number only; 95-117 repeated in number only.

Considerable print show-through.

Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055