Navigation new modelled, or, A treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation :
teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, without tables or instruments, by a new method never yet published : illustrated with practical examples of keeping a journal and correcting it by an observation, with a new way of finding the variation and time of high-water at any known port : together with all necessary tables, calculated to the new stile, and the projection of the sphere, orthographic and stereographic : also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longitude by a solar observation /
by Henry Wilson.
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- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London : Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, 1769.
- Edition
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9th ed., with the addition of spherical trigonometry and astronomy.
- Note
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Issued also under title: Wilson's epitome of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, & practical navigation.
- Physical Description
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xvi, 527 p., [9] leaves of plates :
ill. ;
21 cm.
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