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General introduction to a collection of plans of ports, &c. in the Indian navigation. Published by A Dalrymple.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1783]- Books
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A bill to extend the navigation of the river Weaver, from Winsford-Bridge to the town of Namptwich, in the county of Chester.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1734]- Books
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Some new inquiries tending to the improvement of navigation. By J. A. Genevois, Minister in the Canton of Bern.
Genevois, Jean Alexandre.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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The navigator's assistant; containing the theory and practice of navigation, with all the tables requisite for determining a ship's place at sea. By William Nicholson.
Nicholson, William, 1753-1815.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The new practical navigator; being an epitome of navigation, rendered easy to any common capacity: containing all the requisite tables for determining the latitude and longitude, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: Illustrated by Proper Rules and Examples, the Whole Exemplified in a Journal Kept from England to the Island of Teneriffe. So that this Book, and the Nautical Almanac, will be Found Fully Sufficient for the Seaman and Teacher's Use. Constructed on a New Plan. By John Hamilton Moore, Teacpcr of Navigation, Hydrographer and Chart-Seller to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: 1793- Books
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Minutes of meetings held for the improvement of the navigation at Swansea.
Date: [1787]- Books
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Letters between Redmond Morres, Esq; one of the subscribers to the Grand Canal, and John Smeaton, Esq; engineer, and F.R.S. in 1771, and 1772, relative to the manner of carrying on that navigation, and inviting Mr. Smeaton to come over to Ireland, to view and direct the carrying on the same. With an introduction giving an account of the undertaking. Printed by the order of the Court of Directors of the Company of Undertakers of the Grand Canal.
Morres, Redmond, 1711 or 1712-1784.Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Navigation made easy: Or the practical rules of that art, plainly laid down, and clearly illustrated by suitable examples; all the necessary tables. By William Wilson, M.A. author of Elements of navigation.
Wilson, William, M.A.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Objections of the land owners in the county of Warwick, through or near whose properties the intended navigation, through the said county, to the city of Oxford, is proposed to go.
Date: 1769?]- Books
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The report of John Grundy, Esq; engineer, for making the River Swale to Moreton Bridge and Bedale Brook navigable; with an estimate of the expences thereof.
Grundy, John.Date: 1767]- 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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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, a short, easy and methodical way to become a compleat navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plain and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry, Plain and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental, and Logarithmic; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plain, Mercator's, and Great-Circle-Sailing, Geography. Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plain Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship's Way. A Traverse Table; A Table of Meridional Parts; a Table of 10,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully Corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The whole revis'd, and corrected, with the utmost care, by William Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,XLVII. [1747]- Books
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Nautical propositions and institutes; or directions for the practice of navigation: ... By Samuel Dunn, ...
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: 1781- Books
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The description and use of Donn's improved navigation scale.
Donne, Benjamin, 1729-1798.Date: 1800?]- Books
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Epitomy of navigation, Containing plain and easy rules, for the working all plain triangles, and their application to plain, traverse, oblique, Mercator and middle latitude sailing; with spherical trigonometry in all its cases, and its application to all the necessary problems in astronomy. To which is added, all necessary tables of the sun's declination, latitude and departure, meridional parts, latitude and longitude of places, &c. Concluding with a compleat table of logarithms, sines, tangents, &c. With the use of all the tables illustrated by examples. First written by Gellibrand, Norwood, and Jones; and now collected and digested into one compendium of navigation.
Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636.Date: 1735- 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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Practical navigation: or An introduction to the whole art. Containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles. Plain, mercator, great circle sailing; and astronomical problems. The use of divers instruments; as also of the plain chart, mercator's chart, and both globes. Sundry useful tables in navigation: and a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants. All carefully corrected. By John Seller, hydrographer to the king.
Seller, John, active 1658-1698.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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Practical navigation; or an introduction, to the whole art, Containing The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles. Plain, Mercator, Great Circle Sailing; and Astronomical Problems. The Use of divers Instruments; as also of the Plain Chart, Mercator's Chart, and both Globes. Sundry Useful Tables in Navigation: And a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm Sines, Tangents, and Secants. All carefully Corrected. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.
Seller, John, active 1658-1698.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714] [1717]- Books
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Extracts from the books of the Mayor and Aldermen of Hertford; together with copies of papers in their custody, relating to the navigation on the River Lea, between Hertford and Ware.
Hertford (England)Date: Printed in the Year 1734- Books
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Elements of navigation: Or the practical rules of the art, painly laid down, and clearly demonstrated form their principles; with suitble examples to these rules. To which are annexed all the necessary tables. By William Wilson, M.A.
Wilson, William, M.A.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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An act for impowering the parish officers of the town of Wakefield, in the county of York, to assess one moiety of the profits of the navigation of the Rivers Aire and Calder to the parochial rates ...
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1744]- Books
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The practical navigator and seaman's new daily assistant. Being a complete system of practical naviagation, Improved and rendered easy to the meanest Capacity. The whole exemplified in a journal kept from London to the Island of St. Maries, and back again to Falmouth: Wherein is Shewn How to allow for Leeway, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Set of the Currents, &c. and to correct the Dead Reckoning, by an Observation in all Cases. The New Method of finding the Latitude independent of the Meridian Altitude. The Method of finding the Longitude by Celestial Observation: And the Variation Chart. With Tables of the Difference of Latitude and Departure to 300 Miles Distance. And all other Tables useful in Navigation. The Whole constructed upon a New Plan. By J. Hamilton Moore, Teacher of the Mathematics, and late of the Royal Navy.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The principles of astronomy and navigation, or, A clear, short, yet full explanation of all circles of the celestial and terrestrial globes : and of their uses : being the whole doctrine of the sphere and hypotheses to the phenomena of the primum mobile : to which is added a discovery of the secrets of nature which are found in the mercurial-weather-glass &c. : as also a new proposal for buoying of a ship of any burden from the bottom of the sea / by George Sinclair.
Sinclair, George, -1696Date: 1688- Books
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A compleat treatise of practical navigation, demonstrated from its first principles; together with all the necessary tables. To which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, surveying, and gauging; ... By Archibald Patoun, ...
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1730- Books
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Navigation new modelled: Or, 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, calculated to the new stile, 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 eighth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]