13 results filtered with: Naval art and science - Early works to 1800
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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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Seamanship, both in theory and practice. Illustrated with engravings.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]- Books
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A discourse of navigation; containing several rules and instructions to be observed in the practice thereof: and shewing the use of two instruments, lately invented, for resolving all triangles and all problems, in sailing, without any operation by arithmetick.
Date: MDCCII. [1702]- Books
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Matters of fact, Relating to the navy, Truely stated.
Clarke, George, 1661-1736.Date: 1705- Books
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An address to the public, from the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture. Instituted 14th April, 1791.
Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture.Date: 1791]- Books
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An address to the public, from the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture. Instituted 14th April, 1791.
Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture.Date: 1791?]- Books
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The seaman's sure guide, or, navigator's pocket remembrancer: wherein are given such plain instructions in every useful branch of navigation, as will in a short time form the complete mariner. Among the variety of essential articles contained in this Work are, The Method of Working Tides, or finding High Water at any Place. - Geometry, and the Doctrine of Plain Triangles. - To make Log-Lines, and correct Distances given by Log when the Glass, Line, or both are faulty. - The various Sailings, with Amplitudes and Azimuths. - To find the Apparent and True Altitudes of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. - The different Methods of finding the Latitude. How to find the Apparent Time at Sea, to Regulate the Watch. - The new Method of finding the Longitude by Sun and Moon, or Moon and a fixed Star. - To rectify Courses; with Rulés for correcting the Dead Reckoning, by an Observation in all Cases. - Exercising Examples of Days Works. - A complete log of a ship's voyage, with Instructions for writing a Journal from the Log Book, &c. &c. Upon an Improved Plan, For the Use of Schools. By J. Bettesworth, Master of the Naval Academy, Chelsea, and late Mathematical Master of the Maritime School.
Bettesworth, John.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, a short, easy, and methodical way to become a complete navigator; Containing Practical Geometry, Plane and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry Plane and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental and Logarithmic, with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plane, Mercator's, and Great Circle Sailing, Geography, Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Gregorian or New Calendar, Description and Use of the Plane-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 revised and corrected, with the utmost Care, by W. Mountaine, Mathematical Examiner to the Honourable Corporation of Trinity-House of Deptford-Strond, and F.R.S.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: 1778- Books
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A vocabulary of sea phrases and terms of art used in seamanship and naval architecture. In two parts. I. English and French II. French and English. Carefully collected from the best Authorities written and oral, aided by a long and intimate Acquaintance with the nautical Language of both Countries; and containing all the Orders necessary for working a Ship, and carrying on the Duty on board, as well at Sea as in Port. By a captain of the British navy. ...
Captain of the British Navy.Date: 1799- Books
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The seamans new kalendar, of the sun, moon, and fixed stars: Being a necessary tutor. Furnish'd with such precepts in arthmetick, geometry, trigonometry, geography, &c. As are requisite for a seaman to know. With the desciption and use of such instruments and tables as are useful at sea, both for observation and operation. Also an introduction to the art of navigation exemplified in three kinds of recti-lineal sailing viz. plain, mercator, middle latitude. By William Leybourn, Philomath.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: MDCCVI. [1706]- Books
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An address to the public, from the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture. Instituted 14th April, 1791
Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture.Date: 1791?]- Books
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A system of naval mathematics: or, practical rules of the art of navigation. Intended for the Use of Schools, and Young Mariners. By J. Bettesworth, Master of the Naval Academy, Chelsea.
Bettesworth, John.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A treatise on naval architecture founded upon philosophical and rational principles, towards establishing fixed rules for the best form and Proportional Dimensions In Length, Breadth and Depth, of merchants ships in general, and also the management of them to the greatest advantage, by practical seamanship; with Important Hints and Remarks Relating Thereto, Especially both for Defence and Attacks in War at Sea, from Long Approved Experience. By William Hutchinson, Mariner, Lately a Dock Master at Liverpool.
Hutchinson, William, 1715-1801.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]