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An astronomical diary: or almanack for the year of Christian aera 1791. ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston in America. Latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. But will serve for any of the northern states. ... By Nathanael Low.
Low, Nathanael, 1740-1808.Date: [1790]- Books
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A new prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1687 : Being the third after bissextile, or leap-year. ... exactly calculated for the meridian of the famous city of Edinburgh, whose Latitude is 56 degrees, 00 minuts. Longitude is 11 degrees, 37 minuts. According to the best tables.
Date: Printed for the year 1687- Books
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Brookes' general gazetteer abridged. Containing a geographical description of the countries, cities, towns, forts, seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world; with their Longitude and Latitude, Bearings and Distances from Remarkable Places, and the Events by which they have been Distinguished. Illustrated by maps.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: 1796- Books
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Fallowes, 1636 : A new almanack and prognostication, for the yeere of our Lord God, 1636. and from the creation, 5585. Being bissextile or leape yeere. Calculated especially for the latitude and meridian of the ancient shire-towne of Nottingham: and may very well serve for most parts of great Brittaine. Longitude 24. degrees, 6. minutes. Latitude 52. degrees, 54. minutes. By Edvvard Fallovves, well-vviller to the mathematicks.
Fallowes, Edward, active 1636-1640Date: [1636]- Books
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MDCLXXXIII. The Boston ephemeris : An almanack for the (Dionysian) year of the Christian era. MDCLXXXIII. and of the worlds creation 5632, anno oppidi inchoati 53, of which the vulgar notes are ... serving the meridian of Boston in New-Engl. Latitude 42 gr. 30 min. Longitude 315 gr.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728Date: 1683- Books
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Atlas ouranios. The coelestial atlas, containing, a new ephemeris of the Planetary Motions, and a compleat almanack for the year of our Lord 1750. Adapted to the Meridian of London, and To 53 Degrees of North Latitude. By Robert White, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Grantham in Lincolnshire.
White, Robert, 1693-1773.Date: [1750]- Books
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Browne, 1628 : A new almanacke and prognostication, for the yeare of our Lord God 1628. Being bisextile, or leape yeere. Composed and properly referred to the longitude and latitude of the pole artick of that famous city of London, and may serue generally for the most part of Great-Britaine. ... at London. Longitude, 25.deg. Latitude, 51-32. By Daniel Browne willer to the mathematickes, and teacher of arithmeticke, astra regnnt homines, & regit astra Deus.
Browne, Daniel, active 1614-1631Date: [1628]- Books
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An introduction to the lunar method of finding the longitude in a ship at sea: Having The Latitude of the Place, The Predicted Distances, The Logarithmic Tables, Linear or Proper Tables, And Cotemporary Observations Of The Sun and Moon, OR Moon and Stars. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences,
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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The mariners compass compleated: part the second. Or the expert seaman's best guide. Containing ample specimens of the general table of the magnetical variations (or deviations) of the magnetick needle at places, Ports and Harbours, whose true Latitude and Longitude from the Meridian of London, are certainly known. By Z. Williams.
Williams, Zachariah, 1673?-1755.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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A new and true method to find the longitude, much more exacter than that of latitude by quadrant. Also, a New Method for the Latitude, Truer abundantly than that by Meridian; And by Observation of the Sun, never before discover'd; and in a plain and familiar Way, for the Publick Good, by one who has been both Commander and Owner of several Vessels. Proved by experience, And Recommended to publick Consideration, By William Hall, At Mr. John Cruthars, the Sign of the Leg, in Thames-Street, near the Custom-House, London.
Hall, William, mariner.Date: 1714- 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- Books
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A mathematical manual: or, delightful associate. Containing, I. A description and use of the celestial globe: How to know the Stars in each Constellation, and their Magnitude; also their Latitude, Longitude, Right Ascension, Declination, Semi-Diurnal Ark, Riting, Southing, Setting, Altitude, Azimuth, Distances, &c. The Sun's Place, his Rising and Setting, Length of the Day and Night, &c. Also Dialling by this Globe. II. Twelve Problems relating chiefly to the Moon: And a truer Way than has been given to find Easter, &c. The Hour of the Night by the Moon shining on a Sun-Dial, &c. III. A Description and Use of the Terrestrial Globe, as to Climates, Zones, Shadows, Inhabitants, Latitude and Longitude of Places: And a large Table, shewing where all the most remarkable Places in the World may be placed on Dials; and the Bearing and Distance of such Places from London. IV. A full Description and Use of all Kinds of Maps: With a copious Table of the Latitude, Longitude, and Situation of the chief Cities on Earth: And many other curious Matters. V. The Original of the Lines in a Sector describ'd; with the full Use of that Instrument in Trigonometry, &c. in an Easy Natural Method. VI. How to make a Line of Numbers, or Logarithms, to any Length, and the full Use in all Parts of Arithmetic. Vii. Mysterious Curiosities in Numbers: Or, Numerical Novelties. In Twenty-Five Propositions, mostly New, and very Easy and Delightful. Viii. How to take Heights, Depths, and Distances, great or small, by several Ways and Instruments. In Twelve Propositions. The Whole very Useful and Pleasant. Published for the contemplation and diversion of gentlemen, and others, who are mathematically inclined. By E. Hatton, gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The mariners compass compleated: or, the expert seaman's best guide. In two parts. Containing ample specimens of the general table of the magnetical variations (or deviations) of the magnetick needle at places, Ports and Harbours, whose true Latitude and Longitude from the Meridian of London, are certainly known. By Z. Williams. Part I.
Williams, Zachariah, 1673?-1755.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- 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 universal navigator; or, A Comprehensive Treatise of navigation; containing, I. The most useful Problems in Geometry, Measuring of Plank, Timber Bales, Boxes, and Tunnage of Ships. II. Trigonometry with its application to the taking of Heights and Distances, accessible and inaccessible. III. Navigation, (viz.) Plain Sailing, Traverse Sailing, Mercator, Middle Latitude, and Parallel Sailing, with all the several examples wrought Geometrically, Trignometrically, by Logarithms, Arithmetically, by Natural Sines and Tangents, Instrumentally, and by Tables of Latitude and Departure. To which is annexed a curious Collection of Questions to exercise all the above kind of Sailing, with a large and correct Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, and Meridional parts. Also a Table of Latitude and Longitude of Places. IV. Great Circle Sailing, with a curious Collection of Questions applied thereto, several of which have never appeared in any Treatise of Navigation extant. Oblique Sailing, Turning to Windward, Sailing in Currents, with a Collection of Questions both curious, useful, and entertaining, to exercise the same. V. The Gregorian Calender, shewing the best method of finding the Prime-Epact, Moon's age, time of High Water, with a large Tide-Table, alphabetically digested, the manner of working Observations, the best Method of finding the variation of the Compass. To keep a Sea Journal in the best approved method, both in Merchant's Ships and the Royal Navy, also to correct the Dead Reckoning by a good Observation, by the easiest and best approved Method, illustrated with full, proper, and practical examples of the same, together with all useful Astronomical Tables, viz. the Sun's Declination, a Table of Logarithms, of Nat. and Artificial Sines and Tangents, with a curious collection of Astronomical Problems useful in taking Observations at any time of the Day, or by two Observations, and having the time between them, without regarding the Hour; several of them have not appeared in any other Author. With an appendix, shewing how to work all the cases in navigation by the pen arithmetically, without Books, Tables, or Instruments. By William Chambers, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Chambers, William, teacher of the mathematics.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A description of the coast, tides, and currents, in Button's Bay, and in the Welcome: being the north-west coast of Hudson's Bay, And in the Welcome: Being The North-West Coast of Hudson's Bay, from Churchill River, in 58° 56' North Latitude, to Wager River or Strait, in 65° 24', taken from Scrog's, Crow's, Napier's, and Smith's journals, made in the Years 1722, 1737, 1740, 1742, 1743, and 1744. Also from the discoveries made in 1742, in the Voyage in the Furnace Bomb, and Discovery Pink, commanded by Captain Middleton and Captain Moor; shewing from these Journals, a probability, that there is a passage from thence to the Western ocean of America.
Date: [1745?]- Books
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Epitome of the whole art of navigation: or, a short, easy, and methodical way to become a complete navigator and astronomer; Containing an Introduction to Decimal and Logarithmic Arithmetic, Practical Geometry, Trigonometry Plane and Spherio, Geometrically, and Logarithmically, with their Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plane, Mercator's, and Middle Latitude Sailing, Geography, and Nautical Astronomy; illustrated with Charts and Diagrams: With an Introduction to The Lunar Method of determining the Longitude at Sea. The Gregorian or New Calendar, Description and Use of the Plane Chart, Mercator's Chart, also of Hadley's Octant and Sextant. A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places; Tables of Latitude and Departure to every Quarter Point and Degree of the Compass to 300 Miles Distance; A Table of Meridional Parts, Solar Tables, Natural Since, &c. &c. Also A Table of ... Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines Tangents, and Secants. By James Atkinson, Senior. Much improved enlarged from the best Authors on these Subjects, by John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics, at Edmonton.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: 1790- Books
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Navigation; or, the art of sailing upon the sea. Containing a demonstration of the fundamental principles of this art. Together with all the practical rules of computing a ship's way, Both BY Plain Sailing, Mercator, and Middle Latitude, Founded upon the foregoing Principles. With many other useful Things hereto belonging. To which are added, several necessary tables.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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Navigation; or, the art of sailing upon the sea. Containing a demonstration of the fundamental principles of this art. Together with all the practical rules of computing a ship's way, Both by Plain Sailing, Mercator, and Middle Latitude, Founded upon the foregoing Principles. With many other useful Things hereto belonging. To which are added, Several Necessary Tables.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The doctrine of plain and spherical trigonometry: with its application and use in the following parts of mathematicks; Viz. I. Navigation in all its Kinds; as Plain Sailing, Mercator's Sailing, Middle Latitude, and Parallel Sailing. II. Astronomy; wherein all the Problems relating to the Doctrine of the Sphere are solved. III. Projection of the Sphere in Plano. IV. Geography. V. Fortification. VI. Mensuration of Heights and Distances, both accessible and inaccessible. Vii. Dialling, Arithmetical and Instrumental, on all sorts of Planes. By William Hawney, Author of The Compleat Measurer.
Hawney, William, active 1710-1750.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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Le petit Neptune françois: or, the French coasting pilot. Being a particular description of the Bays, Roads, Rocks, Sands, Land-Marks, Depths of Water, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place; the Setting and Flowing of the Tides, on the coast of France. with Tables of the Latitude, Longitude, and Tides. Translated from the Petit flambeau de la mer of Du Bocage. With large improvements from the great Neptune françois, Bellin, Belidor, &c. In which The Courses and Distances are ascertained, from the Astronomical Observations of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Illustrated with Seventy Views of the different Appearances of Land, and Thirty New Charts. Drawn from the Large Map of France taken by Triangles by M. Cassini de Thury; the Neptune Francois; the Charts of Bellins, Michelot, and Bremond; and all the particular Surveys of the several Parts of the Coast of France. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Du Bocage, Georges Boissaye, 1626-1696.Date: 1761- Books
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The calculation of solar eclipses without parallaxes. With a specimen of the same in the total eclipse of the sun, May 11. 1724. Now first made Publick. To which is added, A Proposal how, with the Latitude given, the Geographical Longitude of all the Parts of the Earth may be settled by the bare Knowledge of the Duration of Solar Eclipses, and especially of Total Darkness. With An Account of some late Observations made with Dipping Needles, in order to discover the Longitude and Latitude at Sea. By Will. Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1724- Books
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Improvements in navigation, and philosophy. Which contains, I. An easy method of finding the longitude at sea, which will be easily practicable there, and which will determine the said Longitude within ten or fifteen Minutes at most: Also a more easy Method of finding the Latitude, and that by the same Instrument that finds the Longitude, and to the same Pitch of Exactness, and without any Regard to the Sun's Shining, or the Sun's Declination, or any Calculation; but if the Horizon be clear, Sailers may see the true Number of the Degrees and Minutes of both the Longitude and Latitude of the Place they are in, upon the Instrument before their Eyes. II. In the next place, here is an endeavour, to amend some things, in the present account of the system, and the principal Phaenomena of this visible World; containing great Improvements in Philosophy. By William Comine, A. M. Vicar of Whissendine in Rutland.
Comine, William, -1753.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Memoir of a chart from St. John's on the Coast of India to Cape Arubah on the coast of Persia, containing The Gulphs of Cambay and Cutch, with The Coasts of Guzarat and Scindy. From the Latitude 19?. 40' N. to 25?. 40' N. Scale 3 Inches=1?. Published, at the charge of the East India Company, by A Dalrymple. 1784.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1784- Books
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Geography for youth or a plain and easy introduction to the science of geography for the use of young gentlemen and ladies: Containing an Accurate Description of the Several Parts of the Known World: To which are Subjoined Geographical Questions and Table of the Longitude and Latitude of the most remarkable Places on the Terraqueous Globe: illustrated by copper plates.
Date: [1797]