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Record Nr.

UNISA996397036703316

Autore

Wakely Andrew

Titolo

The mariners-compass rectified [[electronic resource] ] : containing tables shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass : with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with : and tables of amplitude ... hereunto is added an appendix containing the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation : with a table of the latitude and longitude of places, composed after a new order / / by Andrew Wakely

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Richard Mason and Thomas Passenger, 1694

Edizione

[Carefully corrected, altered and very much enlarged with many useful additions /]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 315, [3] p

Altri autori (Persone)

AtkinsonJames <fl. 1667-1715.>

Soggetti

Nautical astronomy

Navigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Exact tables of the sun's declination. Printed by J.D., 1691" (p. 1-92), "Astronomical tables of semidiurnal and seminocturnal arches. Printed by J.D., 1692" (p. 93-114), and "Astronomical tables shewing the point of the compass ... Printed by J.D., 1692" (p. 115-145) have special t.p.'s.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014