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The description and use of a new much-improved sinical quadrant, whereby, A Person knowing Addition and Subtraction only, may learn, in Six Hours, to allow for Variation and Lee-Way, &c. Also, determine the Longitude at Sea, and keep a regular Journal of a Voyage to any Part of the World. This Instrument is equally useful in Altimetry, Surveying, &c. for taking Altitudes, and determining right angled Triangles. Invented by John Adams, at the Academy, In Brook-Street, Ratcliff; And Made by Richard Rust, Mathematical-Instrument-Maker, St. Catherine's, London.
Adams, John, approximately 1730-approximately 1800.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The description and use of a new universal dial, or, portable equatorial instrument, by G. Wright.
Wright, Gabriel.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Descriptio astrolabii nautici novi a Johanne Hadley, Armig. V. P. R. S. inventi, apti ad observationes syderum altitudinis, vel Angulorum quorumcunque. Annexa sunt praecepta, quibus Observationes illae facilius certiusque a Nautis peragi possint.
Hadley, George, 1685-1768.Date: 1734?]- Books
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The mariner's compass rectified: containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass that the Sun and Stars rise and set with: And Tables of Amplitude. All which Tables are Calculated from the Equinoctial to 60 deg. of Latitude, &c. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places: By Andrew Wakely, Math. Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged, with many useful Additions. By Ja. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematicks. To this Dublin edition is added, The complea boat-swain. By Henry Bond.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1726- Books
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The description and use, of a new quadrant, for finding the latitude at sea: Invented and made, by Benjamin Cole, mathematical instrument-maker, at the Orrery in Fleetstreet, London, to which are added short and plain instructions, for the use of that most excellent instrument, invented by John Hadley, Esq; with the improvement of an artificial horizon.
Cole, Benjamin, 1695-1766.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLVIII. [1748]