Practical navigation: or An introduction to the whole art. :
Containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles. Plain, mercator, great circle sailing; and astronomical problems. The use of divers instruments; as also of the plain chart, mercator's chart, and both globes. Sundry useful tables in navigation: and a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants. All carefully corrected. By John Seller, hydrographer to the king.
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| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
Printed by S. Powell, at the sign of the printing-press in Copper-Alley, near the Blind-Key, for G. Grierson, Bookseller, at the Two Bibles in Essex-street,
MDCCXIV. [1714]
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| Place Name: | Ireland -- Dublin. |
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| Notes: | Edited by John Colson. Text continuous despite pagination. 'A table of logarithms' has separate titlepage, London, "printed for Richard Mount", 1718, unnumbered pages and separate register. Bound with: A table of logarithms, for numbers increasing in their natural order from 1 to 10000. Carefully corrected. Physical description: [8], 160,177-246,227-230,251-254, [20], 263-272; [146] p., plates : ill ; 4to. Citations/References: English Short Title Catalog, T228568 more |
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