Norwood's system of navigation [[electronic resource] ] : teaching the whole art, in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath been hitherto done. Shewing, the projection of the plain scale: the sphere in plaino: astronomical problems useful in navigation: traverse tables: right lin'd triangles, geometrically, by tables of sines, tangents, logarithms, and by Gunter's ruler; applied to Plain and Mercator's sailing. Illustrated by schemes on copper-plates. How to make observations at sea or shore. Sure and easie ways of reckoning by latitude, longitude, and meridional distance; with tables for both ways of sailing. The longitude and latitude of principal places. Tables for the suns place and declination; of the longitudes, latitudes, declinations, right ascensions, and seasons of some noted stars. Spherical triangles; and their use in great circle sailing. The use of the globes, Azimuth compass for variation. And also of sea-gunnery. The description and use of a new instrument, called Encyclologium, or the sliding circles; which, wit

• Autore: Norwood Matthew
• Pubblicazione: London, : printed for H. Sawbridge, T. Guy, T. Parkhurst, J. Robinson, and G. Conyers, 1685
• Descrizione fisica: [16], 384, 11, [149], 8, 5-50 p., plates : ill
• Soggetto topico: Geometry; Navigation
• Note generali: "A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes" and "A triangular canon logarithmical" each have a separate dated title page; register is continuous.; Reproduction of original in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0186
• Titolo autorizzato: Norwood's system of navigation
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996393825903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno