Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art [electronic resource] : containing many useful 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-dyal, variation-compass, the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal, the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical-quadrant, plain-chart, mercators-chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and vertues of the load-stone, useful tables of the Moon's age, of the tydes, of the Sun's place, declination, and right-ascention, of the stars right-ascention and declination, the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of meridional parts, likewise a new traverse-table, and 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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Online Access: Full Text (via Early English Books Online)
Main Author: Seller, John, active 1658-1698
Other Authors: White, Robert, 1645-1703 (Engraver), Darby, John, 1624 or 1625-1704 (Printer)
Other title:Introduction to the whole art.
Triangular canon logarithmical: or, a table of artificial sines, tangents, secants.
Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes: for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 10000.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Printed by J. Darby, and are to sold by the author at the Hermitage in Wapping, by William Fisher at the Postern-gate near Tower-hill, and by Eliz. Hurlock at the Rose at the West-end of St. Pauls, anno 1676.
Edition:The third edition, enlarged.
Series:Early English books online.
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Item Description:Edition statement immediately follows title.
With an added engraved title page (plate)
With divisional title pages: "Triangular canon logarithmical: or, a table of artificial sines, tangents, secants ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1673." and "Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes: for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 10000 ... London, printed by John Darby, for John Seller, and John Wingfield, 1672."
Frontis signed by R. White, sculp.
Signatures: A-Tt4 Uu1 ii4 Xx4 Zz4 ll-eee4 fff2.
Irregular pagination.
The final [148] p. are tables.
Reproduction of original in: York Minster. Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([9], 328, 65-72, 335-350, [148] p., [1] leaf of plates :) ill.
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Citation/References Note:Wing (2nd ed., 1994),
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