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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 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 prognostication for the year of Our Lord, 1686 : Being the second 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. / By a lover of the mathematicks.
Date: For the year, 1686- Books
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An account kept during thirteen months in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, of The Going of a Pocket Chronometer, made on a new construction, by John Arnold, Having his new-invented Ballance Spring, and A Compensation for the Effects of Heat and Cold In the Ballance. Published by Permission of the Board of Longitude.
Arnold, John, chronometer maker.Date: 1780- Books
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A practical introduction to spherics and nautical astronomy. Being an attempt to simplify those useful sciences. Containing, Among Other Original Matter, The Discovery Of A Projection For Clearing The Lunar Distances, In Order To Find The Longitude At Sea; With A New Method Of Calculating This Important Problem. By P. Kelly, Master Of Finsbury Square Academy, London.
Kelly, P. (Patrick), 1756-1842.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Fleets pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1788. Being leap year, and the twelfth of American independence. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register.
Date: [1787]- 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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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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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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Navigation new modell'd: 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, and the Projection of the Sphere Orthographick and Stereographick, Also Current Sailing, with other Pleasant Questions, and how to correct the Longitude by a Solar Observation. The second edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson, Author of the London Accomptant, Trigonometry Improv'd, and other Mathematical Treatises.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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Fleets' pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1792. Being bissextile or leap year, and sixteenth of American independence. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register. &c.
Date: [1791]- Books
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Fleets pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1790. Being the second after leap year, and fourteenth of American independence. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register. &c.
Date: [1789]- Books
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Fleets' pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1791. Being the third after leap year, and fifteenth of American independence. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. Longitude 7 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register. &c.
Date: [1790]- 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]- Books
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Fleets' pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1793. Being the first after leap year, and seventeenth of American independence. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 25 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register. &c.
Date: [1792]- Books
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An account of the methods used to describe lines, on Dr. Halley's chart of the terraqueous globe; shewing the variation of the magnetic needle about the year 1756, in all the known seas; Their Application and Use in correcting the Longitude at Sea; with some Occasional Observations relating thereto. By William Mountaine, and James Dodson, Fellows of the Royal Society.
Mountaine, William, -1779.Date: 1758- Books
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Navigation new modell'd: or, a treatise of geometrical trigonometrical arithmetical instrumental and practical navigation. Teaching, How to keep a Reckoning, both in Latitutde 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, and the Projection of the Sphere Orthographick and Stereographick, Also Current Sailing, with other Pleasant Questions, and how to correct the Longitude by a Solar Observation. The third edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson, Author of the London Accomptant, Trigonometry Improv'd, and other Mathematical Treatises, Revised and Corrected by the Author.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The seaman's complete daily assistant: being an easy and correct method of keeping a journal at sea. Containing Rules for working the Cases in Plain, Middle Latitude, and Mercator's Sailing, by the Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure. - And for finding the Latitude, Longitude, Amplitude, and Azimuth, by Observation. Illustrated by a sufficient Number of Examples. Likewise, Rules shewing how the Allowances are to be made for Lee-Way, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Setting of the Currents, &c. - And to correct the Dead Reckoning by an Observation, in all Cases. The new Method of finding the Latitude by two Altitudes of the Sun; and the finding the Longitude by the the Moon's Distance from the Sun, or a fixed Star; rendered easy to any common Capacity. To which are added, The Tables of Difference of Latitude and Departure to 300 Miles Distance; the New Solar Tables and Table of Natural Sines; with a larger and more correct Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places, than any hitherto published; together with all the Tables necessary for the Seaman's Use in working a Day's Work at Sea. The whole constructed upon a new plan. By John Hamilton Moore, Author of the Practical Navigator, And formerly of the Royal Navy.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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An essay at the mechanism of the macrocosm: or the dependance of effects upon their causes. In a new hypothesis, Accommodated to Our Modern and Experimental Philosophy. In which are solved several Phoenomena, hitherto unaccounted for; as the Cause of Gravitation, Motion, Reflexion, Refraction, &c. With a Method proposed to find out the Exact Rate that a Ship Runs, and consequently the Longitude at Sea.
Purshall, Conyers.Date: 1705- Books
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Fleets pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1797. Being the first after leap year, and twenty-first of American independence, which began July 4th, 1776. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 23 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register. &c. &c. &c.
Date: [1796]- Books
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The starry speculum; being an ephemeris of the celestial motions of the planets, for the year of human redemption, 1748. Containing The Planets Diurnal Motions, both in Longitude, Latitude, and Declination; their Aspects and Configurations one with another. The Solar Ingresses, and Eclipses of the Luminaries, with many other Tables and Things; calculated for the Latitude of 51? 32'. The like not Extant. By John Sharp, Student in the Celestial Sciences.
Sharp, John, -1757.Date: 1748- Books
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Riders (1704.) British Merlin: Bedeckt with many Delightful Varieties, and Useful Verities, Fitting the Longitude and Latitude of all Capacities within the Islands of Great-Britain's Monarchy. And Chronological Observations of Principal Note to this Year 1704. Being bissextile, or Leap-Year. With Notes of Husbandry, Physick, Fairs, and Marts: And Directions and tables to all necessary Uses. Made and Compiled for his Country's Benefit, by Cardanus Riders.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: 1704- Books
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A Pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1796. Being leap year, and twentieth of American independence, which began July 4th, 1776. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 23 min. north. Longitude 71 deg. 4 min. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. To which is annexed, the Massachusetts register. By Thomas & John Fleet.
Date: [1795]- Books
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An astronomical diary: or almanack, for the year of Christian aera 1799. ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston in America. Latitude 42 degrees, 23 minutes north. Longitude 70 deg. 37 min. 15 sec. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, in the kingdom of Great Britain; and 72 deg. 57 min. 15 sec. west of the Republican Observatory at Paris, in France. But will serve for any of the adjacent states. By Nathanael Low. [Six lines of verse]
Low, Nathanael, 1740-1808.Date: [1798]