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 king
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Seller John <fl. 1658-1698.>
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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 king
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author, and John Wingfield, 1683 |
| Edizione: | The fifth edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | [10], 350, [150]] p. : ill |
| Soggetto topico: | Navigation |
| Logarithms | |
| Note generali: | Added 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. | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | eebo-0113 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996387898903316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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