The new American practical navigator :
being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the Nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea ... the whole exemplified in a journal kept from Boston to Madeira ... with an appendix, containing methods to calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ... /
by Nathaniel Bowditch ... and, since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch.

Description

Main Author

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.

Related Names

Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.

Language(s)

English

Published

New-York : E. & G. W. Blunt, 1841.

Edition

12th new stereotype ed.

Subjects

Nautical astronomy.
Navigation.

Note

Campbell 16.

Physical Description

xv, 317, 1 l., 446, [1], 4 p. : 12 plates, fold. chart ; 26 cm.

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