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Latitude - Early works to 1800
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A practical method, To Discover the Longitude at Sea, By a New Contrived Automaton. Freed from all the Various Effects of Air in different Climates, &c. And not Liable to Disorder by the Irregular Motion of a Ship. The whole Method Rendered Plain and Easie to be Understood by every Mariner. With an account of the author's new instrument for taking the latitude more accurately at sea, than hath hitherto been practised. Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration, and Use of the Publick. By John Ward. of Chester. Author of the Young Mathematicians Guide, &c.
Ward, John, active 1698-1709.Date: [1714]- Books
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The description and use of a new and easy formula, for determining the time of the day, the azimuth of the sun, and the latitude ... By Samuel Dunn, ...
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: 1777- Books
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The astronomy of fixed stars; concisely deduced from original principles, and prepared for application to geography and navigation. Part I. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematics, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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The practical observer; Or, The new method of finding the latitude at sea, by taking two altitudes, either in the forenoon or afternoon. And also, the new method of finding the longitude at sea, by taking the distance of the moon from the sun, or a fixed Star, &c. Rendered easy to the meanest capacity. By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant. To which is added, the new Solar tables. and table of natural sines, with the use of the quadrant and sextant.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The complete observator. Containing the various methods of finding the latitude when the sun is in the meridian, and also By Two Altitudes, Either Equal or Unequal, when out of the Meridian; Together with A New Method of finding the Latitude By One Altitude Only, At Any Hour when the Sun can be seen, and of Correcting the Watch, Never Before Published. And also a new method of finding the latitude, without knowing the sun's declination, In any High Latitude either North or South, And if the Day of the Month be Lost, how to Find it. With a Complete Set of Tables. To the whole is added The Method of Determining the Longitude By Lunar Observations. Together with A New, Concise, Easy, and Infallible Method of Determining the Longitude By an Observation either of the Moon or Fixt Star, by One Person Only, And an Hadley's Quadrant well adjusted. By Thomas Harrison and Son.
Thomas Harrison and Son (York, England)Date: Printed in the Year 1788