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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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A new sett of logarithmic solar tables, calculated and constructed for determining the latitude at sea, by Taking two Altitudes either in the Forenoon or Afternoon, with the intermediate Time by a common Watch; and that with Ease and Accuracy, independent of the Sun's Meridional Altitude. This Most Excellent and Useful Performance, does not only produce the true Latitude at any Time between Nine O'Clock in the Morning, and Three in the Afternoon; but also gives the true Time of the Day, when the greatest Altitude was taken to thirty Seconds by the Tables; and if a greater Degree of Accuracy is required, the same may be done by taking Proportional Parts. Whence the Sun's true Azimuth may be determined by One single Proportion.
Date: 1759- Books
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The method of finding the longitude at sea, by time-keepers: to which are added, tables of equations to equal altitudes. More extensive and accurate than any hitherto published. By William Wales, F. R. S. And Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital.
Wales, William, 1734?-1798.Date: 1794- Books
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A table of proportional logarithms; to be used with the astronomical and nautical ephemeris.
Great Britain. Commissioners of Longitude.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A compleat system of navigation: In Two Parts. I. Atkinson's Epitome. II. Navigation New Modell'd: Or, The Whole Art performed, without Tables or Instruments, by a New Method, never yet published: Illustrated with Practical Examples of keeping a Journal, and correcting by an Observation; with a New Way of finding the Variation, and Time of High-Water, at any known Port. With Proper and Correct Tables, viz. 1. A Table of the Sun's Right Ascension. 2. A Table of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal fixed Stars. 3. A Table of the Sun's Declination, calculated for 20 years. 4. A Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Islands, in the World. 5. A Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. 6. A Table shewing the First Day of March, Epact, Dominical Letter; with a Perpetual Almanack. Likewise the Use and Description of the Quadrant, Cross-Staff, and Nocturnal. By H. Wilson. To which is added, for the Help of young Seamen The Draught of a Ship, with all her Rigging: Every rope particularly described by its proper Name: and also a Dictionary, Explaining all the Terms used at Sea, in an Alphabetical Order.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M,DCCLXVII. [1767]