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The mariner's new calendar. Containing The principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots; also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension: of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longtitude of places: a large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff and nocturnal: necessary problems in plane-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by Gunter's scale: a tide table: the courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the soundings at coming into the channel: with directions for failing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in the mathematics. The whole revis'd and adjusted to the new stile, By William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: 1754- Books
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The Mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots: also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension: of the right ascention and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longtitude of places: a large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff and nocturnal: necessary problems in plane-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by Gunter's scale: a tide table: the courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the soundings at coming into the channel: with directions for failing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in the mathematics. The whole revis'd and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: 1758- Books
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The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry, with the extraction of the square and cuberoots: also rules for singing the prime, epact, moon's-age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension. Of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars. Of the latitude and longitude of places: a large table of the difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also, the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff, and nocturnal: necessary problems in plain-sailing and astronomy wrought by the logarithms, and by gunter's scale. A tidk table. the courses and distances on the coast of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, &c. and the soundings at coming into the channel. With directions for sailing into some principle harbours. Nathaniel Colson, student in the mathematicks. The whole revis'd and adjusted to the New-Stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S. To this edition is added, the compleat Irish Coaster.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: M,DCC,LIV. [1754]- Books
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The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry, with the extraction of the square and cube-roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's-Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension. Of the Right Ajcension and Declination of the principal fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large Table of the Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff, and nocturnal: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide-Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, &c. and the Soundings at coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks. The whole revised and adjusted to the new-stile. By William Mountaine. . F. R. S. To this edition is added, The compleat Irish coaster.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: 1776- Books
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The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry, with the Extraction of the Square and Cube-Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's-Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right Ascension. Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large Table of the Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also, the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff, and Nocturnal: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide-Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings at coming into the Channel. With Directions for Sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks. The whole revised and adjusted to the new-stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S. *** To this edition is added, The compleat Irish coaster.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The seaman's desiderata: or, Concise, practical rules for computing the apparent time at sea, the latitude from double solar altitudes, and the longitude from the lunar observations. With a simple and expeditious method of clearing the lunar distances from the effects of parallax and refraction. By H. Clarke, lecturer in mathematics and philosophy.
Clarke, Henry, 1743-1818.Date: 1800- Books
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The east India navigator's daily assistant; with the new method of computing the longitude, dedicated by permission, to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants of England. Trading to the East Indies. By R. Bishop.
Bishop, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The modern navigator's compleat tutor: or, a treatise of the whole art of navigation in its theory and practice, curiosity and utility. Containing I. Domestick or Coasting Navigation, Sundry Notes of the Moon's Motions, Calender, Tides, &c. II. Theoretical Navigation, by Various Methods, viz. Geometrical, Logarithmetical, Instrumental, Tabular, and by the Pen only (without Tables or Instruments.) Together with Practical Astronomy, the Description, Construction, and Use of the Plain and Mercator's Charts, and other Nautical Instruments, &c. III. Practical Navigation, The Application of the Theory to Practice; in keeping a Sea-Journal, the working a Day's Log at Sea, in all Cases of Winds and Weather, making or short'ning Sail, Trying, Hulling, &c. And, the manner of making allowance for all known Impediments whatsoever (with Rational Corrections;) Illustrated with full, proper and practical Examples of the same. The whole more amply and plainly demonstrated, than in any Treatise of this kind extant. To which are added, all necessary tables, Nautical and Astronomical, for the Mariner's Practice, by Inspection. Also an appendix, Touching Pleasant and Critical Questions in Navigation; with divers other things both Curious and Useful in this Art. By Joshua Kelly, Mariner, and Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Kelly, Joshua.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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Methods, propositions and problems, for finding the latitude; With the Degree and Minute of the Equator upon the Meridian. And The Longitude at Sea. By Caelestial Observations only. And also by Watches, Clocks, &c. and to correct them and know their Alterations. By Robert Browne.
Browne, Robert, of Wapping.Date: [1714]- Books
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The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension: Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars: Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places: A large Table of Difference of Latitude and De parture, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tice Table: The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings at coming into the Channel: With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematics. The whole revised, and adjusted to the new stile by William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: 1785- Books
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The elements of navigation; containing the theory and practice. With all the necessary tables. To which is added, A treatise of marine fortification. ... In two volumes. By J. Robertson, ...
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.Date: 1754- Books
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A treatise of navigation: containing, I. The theory of navigation demonstrated; wherein it is proved, that the Nature of the thing called Departure is quite different from that which the Writers upon this Subject took it to be: That Middle-Latitude Sailing is erroneous; and that the common Method of keeping Reckonings in Meridional Distance, is grossly false. II. Nautical problems: Of a single Course, Traverses; of computing the Bearings and Distances of Places. The Use of Mercator's Chart made easy, and a new Method for finding the Bearings of Places upon Charts, without the Confusion of Rhumb-Lines. Of Currents, and how to find them several Ways: Of turning to Windward in Currents, &c. III. Astronomical Problems: Improvements made in the common Sea-Quadrant. The Description of a new Fore-Staff, which is much more accurate and commodious than the common one. The Errors of the Nocturnal shewed and demonstrated. Tables of the Sun's Place, Declination, and Right Ascension. A Table of the most eminent Fixed Stars, contrived in such a manner, as to shew by Inspection, which is the properest Star for Observation, in all Places, and at all Times of the Year. IV. Practical Navigation: Improvements made in the common Sea-Compass. The Description of a new Azimuth-Compass, which is so contrived as to be kept from being disturbed by the Motion of the Ship. How to find the Lee-Way to a great Exactness, and a new and commodious Method of keeping a Sea-Journal. To which is prefixed, by way of Introduction, A succinct Treatise of Plain Trigonometry. By Joseph Harris, teacher of the mathematicks.
Harris, Joseph, 1704-1764.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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Ens fictum Shakerlæi : or the annihilation of Mr. Jeremie Shakerley, his in-artificiall anatomy of Urania practica. Wherein his falacies or ignorance, are demonstratively detected his malice in its groundlesse colours display'd, and the authors of the said Urania practica justly vindicated from his unjust aspersions. By Vin. Wing, and Will. Leybourn, philomathematicis.
Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668Date: 1649- Books
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The anatomy of Urania practica : or, a short mathematicall discourse; laying open the errors and impertinencies delivered in a treatise lately published by Mr. Vincent Wing, and Mr. William Leybourne, under the title of Urania practica. By Jeremy Shakerley philomath.
Shakerley, Jeremy, active 1651Date: 1649- Books
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The mariners new kalendar, containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension. and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also, the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff, and nocturnal. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks[.]
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: [1732]- Books
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The longitude demonstrated, by the use of a silent pendulum; that keeps true time at sea. And made plain (by an Index Instrument) to the meanest Capacity. With a new observatory for finding the meridian altitude of sun or stars, and a great Improvement of the Sun-Quadrant; which are more exact than any heretofore known: With fair Copper Cuts of the Machine, and all the other Instruments. And a table of the acceleration of fixed stars, more exact than any heretofore extant; with the Sun's Declination, Right Ascension, and Equation of Time; and other useful Tables fitted to this Work. An Experiment of what Proportion a Pendulum lengthens in the greatest Heat, where Animals can live, or Vegetables grow; and at several other Degrees of Heat, to red-hot. With a Method to make a Pendulum to fit all Climates; with several other uncommon Experiments. By Jonah Crathorne.
Crathorne, Jonah.Date: 1718- Books
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The navigator's guide, to The Oriental or Indian Seas: or, the description and use of a variation chart of the magnetic needle, designed for shewing the longitude, throughout the principal parts of the Atlantic, Ethiopic, and Southern Oceans; Within a degree, or sixty miles. With an Introductory Discourse, concerning the Discovery of the Magnetic Variation, the finding of the Longitude thereby, and several useful Tables. By S. Dunn, Teacher of Mathematics, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: [1775]- 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 Degrees 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 J. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1746- Books
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The navigator's assistant; or, a new and methodised system of naval mathematics: containing every thing necessary for determining a ship's place at sea by observation; with a full and comprehensive Display of the Useful Parts of Practical Navigation. The whole exemplified in a journal from the Lizard to Funchal. Designed for the use of schools, and young mariners. By George Dixon, Teacher of Navigation, and Astronomy, Gosport, Hants.
Dixon, George, -1800?.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- 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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The description and use of that most excellent invention, call'd the globular chart: Shewing its Agreeableness to the Globe, And the Natural and Easy Consequences thereof in the Practice of Navigation; with a specimen of a sea-chart in that projection; and trigonometrical calculations, to prove the Truth thereof, both in Course, Latitude, Longitude, Meridian Distance (or Departure) Distance in the Arch of a great Circle, and Distance in the Rumb, tho' so Extensive as to exceed 1200 Leagues; and all measur'd by a Scale of Equal Parts, which cannot be done upon any Projection but this only. To which is prefix'd an answer to Mr Haselden's letter to Dr. Halley, Proving by Mathematical Demonstration, that his Principal Argument is false by above Three in Five; the rest invalid, and the whole incoherent. With an appendix, containing an answer to Mr. Collier, and proving that these two Authors contradict themselves, and one another. By Henry Wilson, Late Mathematician in His Majesty's Navy, and Author of several Treatises, in Navigation, Astronomy, &c.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: 1722- Books
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A new and complete description of the terrestrial and celestial globes, with their several uses. In eight parts. Containing I. Definitions of the several Parts of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, both real and imaginary, with their several Uses. II. A short but comprehensive System of the Geography of the Terrestrial Globe. III. The Use of the Terrestrial Globe, exemplified or illustrated in Sixty-Eight Problems, with very easy Directions for working them. IV. The Construction of the Analemma, with its Use on the Terrestrial Globe, in Seven Problems. V. A further Use of the Terrestrial Globe, exemplified in Forty-Five Theorems, with their Explications. VI. A Continuation of the Use of the Terrestrial Globe, exemplified in Fifty-Six Paradoxes, with their Solutions; distinguished into Geographical, Philosophical, and Astronomical. Vii. The Use of the Celestial Globe, exemplified in Twenty-Six Problems, with very easy Directions to obtain their Solutions, to which is prefixed a short Account of the Copernican System, and a short Explanation of the latter Part of Parker's Ephemeris. Viii. A Continuation of the Use of the Celestial Globe, exemplified in Twelve Nautical Problems, for finding the Latitude at Sea; with the like easy Solutions. To which is annexed, an appendix, concerning the nature and use of the orrery, Or Planetarium. The Whole, interspersed with useful and instructive Notes, is designed and adapted for the Use of Schools, in Great-Britain and Ireland; and in the British Colonies and Plantations abroad. By Thomas Dilworth, Schoolmaster in Wapping; Author of the New Guide to the English Tongue, Schoolmasters Assistant, &c. &c.
Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]