Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art [[electronic resource] ] : containing many useful 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-dyal, variation-compass, the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal, the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical-quadrant, plain-chart, mercators-chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and vertues of the load-stone, useful tables of the Moon's age, of the tydes, of the Sun's place, declination, and right-ascention, of the stars right-ascention and declination, the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of meridional parts, likewise a new traverse-table, and 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 King
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Seller John <active 1658-1698.>
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Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art [[electronic resource] ] : containing many useful 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-dyal, variation-compass, the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal, the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical-quadrant, plain-chart, mercators-chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and vertues of the load-stone, useful tables of the Moon's age, of the tydes, of the Sun's place, declination, and right-ascention, of the stars right-ascention and declination, the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of meridional parts, likewise a new traverse-table, and 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 King
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Printed by J. Darby, and are to sold by the author at the Hermitage in Wapping, by William Fisher at the Postern-gate near Tower-hill, and by Eliz. Hurlock at the Rose at the West-end of St. Pauls, anno 1676 |
| Edizione: | The third edition, enlarged. |
| Descrizione fisica: | [9], 328, 65-72, 335-350, [148] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill |
| Soggetto topico: | Nautical almanacs |
| Nautical instruments | |
| Navigation | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WhiteRobert <1645-1703, > |
| DarbyJohn <1624 or 1625-1704, > | |
| FisherW-1692, (William) | |
| HurlockElizabeth <active 1673-1677, > | |
| SellerJohn <active 1658-1698, > | |
| SingfieldJohn | |
| Note generali: | Edition statement immediately follows title. |
| With an added engraved title page (plate). | |
| With divisional title pages: "Triangular canon logarithmical: or, a table of artificial sines, tangents, secants ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1673." and "Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes: for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 10000 ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1672.". | |
| Frontis signed by R. White, sculp. | |
| Signatures: A-Tt4 Uu1 ii4 Xx4 Zz4 ll-eee4 fff2. | |
| Irregular pagination. | |
| The final [148] p. are tables. | |
| Reproduction of original in: York Minster. Library. | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | eebo-0199 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996389644003316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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