02497nam 2200397 n 450 99638430170331620221108002758.0(CKB)1000000000592986(EEBO)2240950423(UnM)99847084(EXLCZ)99100000000059298619911118d1599 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Errors in nauigation[electronic resource] 1 Error of two, or three whole points of the compas, and more somtimes, by reason of making the sea-chart after the accustomed maner ... 2 Error of one whole point, and more many times, by neglecting the variation of the compasse. 3 Error of a degree and more sometimes, in the vse of the crosse staffe ... 4 Error of 11. or 12. minures [sic] in the declination of the sunne, as it is set foorth in the regiments most commonly vsed among mariners: and consequently error of halfe a degree in the place of the sunne. 5 Error of halfe a degree, yea an whole degree and more many times in the declinations of the principall fixed starres, set forth to be obserued by mariners at sea. Detected and corrected by often and diligent obseruation. Whereto is adioyned, the right H. the Earle of Cumberland his voyage to the Azores in the yeere 1589. wherin were taken 19. Spanish and Leaguers ships, together with the towne and platforme of Fayal. By Edward WrightPrinted at London [By Valentine Simmes and W. White] for Ed. Agas1599[252], 29, [3] p., [3] folded plates ill., mapsPrinters' names from STC; "White pr[inted]. pt. 2".Signatures: A⁴ 2-3[par.]⁴ B-C⁴ D² E-O⁴ 2A-2Q⁴; A-D⁴ (-D4) [E]¹.The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A".With a final errata leaf."The voyage of the right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores" (caption title) is paginated and has separate register.A reissue, with cancel title page, of "Certaine errors in navigation".Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.eebo-0113NavigationEarly works to 1800NavigationWright Edward1558?-1615.1004815Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996384301703316Errors in nauigation2403836UNISA