02296nam 2200409Ia 450 99638789890331620200824132255.0(CKB)1000000000627427(EEBO)2240924277(OCoLC)ocm43077610e(OCoLC)43077610(EXLCZ)99100000000062742719991222d1683 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art[electronic resource] containing many useful and geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles; plain Mercator, and great-circle sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass, ring-dial, variation-compass; the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal; the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical quadrant, plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and virtues of the loadstone. Useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension; of the stars right-ascension and declination; the latitude and longitude of places; and a table of meridional parts : likewise a new traverse-table, and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea : also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the log. sines, tangents, and secants /by John Seller, hydrographer to the kingThe fifth edition.London Printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author, and John Wingfield1683[10], 350, [150]] p. illAdded illustrated t.p."A table containing ten chiliads of logarithms," and "A triangular canon logarithmical" each have special t.p.Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.eebo-0113NavigationEarly works to 1800NavigationTablesLogarithmsNavigationNavigationLogarithms.Seller Johnfl. 1658-1698.1001072EAEEAEWaOLNBOOK996387898903316Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art2310022UNISA