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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 upon which they rise and set: With Tables of Amplitudes and Declination. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With A Description of the most useful Instruments in Practice in the Art of Navigation. Also, A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. By Andrew Wakely, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, corrected, improved and enlarged, with new tables and examples, by John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics, And Author of the Young Sea Officer's Assistant.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1787- Books
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A treatise on magnetism, with a description and explanation of a meridional and azimuth compass, for ascertaining the quantity of variation, without any calculation whatever, at any time of the day. Also improvements upon compasses in general. With Tables of Variation, for all Latitudes and Longitudes. By Ralph Walker, of Jamaica.
Walker, Ralph.Date: 1794- 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 deg. 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 Ja. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematicks. To this Dublin edition is added, The complea boat-swain. By Henry Bond.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1726- 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 upon which they Rise and Set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun - Dials, Semidiurnal-Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of Places. By Andrew Wakeley, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the New-Stile. By William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1766- Books
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An account of the new improved sea compasses, made by the patentee, K. McCulloch, compass-maker To His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarance, with reports of their practical utility, founded on some Years Experience, by Capt. Philip D'Auvergne, F.R.S. and other Scientific Gentlemen.
MacCulloch, Kenneth.Date: 1789- Books
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The mariner's compass rectified: containing tables, shewing the true hours 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: 1750- Books
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The mariner's compass rectified; containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, ... By Andrew Wakeley, ... Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, ... By William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1763- 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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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, upon which they Rise and Set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun - Dials, Semidiurnal-Arches, and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. 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 Wakeley [sic], Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the New-Stile. By William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1757- Books
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A new problem to discover the longitude at sea, by the same observation, and with the same certainty, as the latitude is: together with the translation, of the problem into Latin. By Richard Locke.
Locke, Richard (Mathematician)Date: 1751- 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 mariners compass compleated: or, the complement of the art of navigation discover'd and propos'd. Being a dissertation concerning the magnetical variations of the mariners compass; and the Variation of that same Variation, (according to a new Hypothesis and System.) As also Directions for the Use of an Universal Instrument, Invented for Ready Knowing the Variations of the Mariners Compass, at all Times and Places. By Z. W.
Williams, Zachariah, 1673?-1755.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- 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 upon which they Rise and Set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal-Arches, and Amplitudes are Calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South.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, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the New Stile. By W. Mountaine, F.R.S.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1753- 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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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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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, Mathematician. Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged with many useful additions. By J. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1752