Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts [[electronic resource] ] : Containing 1. New ways of keeping of a reckoning, or platting of a traverse, both upon the plain and mercators chart ... 2. New rules for estimating the ships way through currents, and for correcting the dead reckoning. 3. The refutation of divers errors, and of the plain chart, and how to remove the error committed thereby ... as also a table thereof made to every other centesm. 4. A new easie method of calculation for great circle-sayling, with new projections, schemes and charts ... 5. Arithmetical navigation, or navigation performed by the pen, if tables were wanting .. / By John Collins of London, Pen-man, accomptant, philomathet

• Autore: Collins John <1625-1683.>
• Pubblicazione: London, : printed by Tho. Johnson for Francis Cossinet, and are to be sold at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street, as also by Henry Sutton mathematical instrument-maker in Thread needle street, behinde the Exchange, 1659
• Descrizione fisica: [10], 54, [2], 118 [i.e. 128], [4], 67, [4], 36 p. : ill
• Soggetto topico: Navigation
• Note generali: Parts 1, 2, and 3 of "The mariners plain scale new plain'd" each have separate dated title page, pagination and register.; Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 31".; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018
• Titolo autorizzato: Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996388542503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno