An epitome of navigation [electronic resource] : containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, and their use and application in plain sailing, mercator's sailing, and great circle sailing, as also in astronomy and geography, and rules for finding the variation of the compass, and correcting the course. Together with tables of the sun and stars right ascension and declination, of the latitude and longitude of places, of meridional parts. Likewise a traverse-table, a perpetual almanack; and other things very useful in the art of navigation. And the logarithm sines and tangents, with the logarithms of natural numbers, from 1 to 10000, according to those exact tables formerly set forth. By Henry Gellibrand.
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| Other title: | Epitome of navigation. Triangular canon logarithmical, or, A table of artificial sines and tangents. Table of logarithms of absolute numbers, from and unite to 10000. Several tables necessary in navigation. Appendix containing the use of the cross-staff, quadrant and nocturnal in navigation. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-hill,
1698.
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| Edition: | This edition (with many new additions) is carefully corrected by Euclid Speidell, student in the mathematicks. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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