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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers, beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English; Ramusio, Alamandini, Carreri, &c. in Italian; Thevenot, Renaudot, Labat, &c. in French; De Brye, Grynaeus, Maffeus, &c. in Latin; Herrera, Oviedo, Coreal, &c. in Spanish; And the Voyages under the Direction of the East-India Company in Holland, in Dutch. Together with such Other Histories, Voyages, Travels, or Discoveries, As are in General Esteem; Whether published in English, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, High and Low Dutch, or in any other European Language. Containing whatever has been observed Worthy of Notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; In Respect to the Extent and Situation of Empires, Kingdoms, Provinces, &c. The Climate, Soil, and Produce, whether Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral, of Each Country: Likewise the Religion, Manners, and Customs of the several Inhabitants, their Government, Arts and Sciences, Publick Buildings, Mountains, Rivers, Harbours, &c. Illustrated BY Proper Charts, Maps, and Cuts. To which is prefixed a copious introduction, comprehending the Rise and Progress of the Art of Navigation, and its successive Improvements; together with the Invention and Use of the Loadstone, and its Variation. Originally published in two volumes in folio, by John Harris, D. D. and F. R. S. Now carefully revised, with large additions, and Continued down to the Present Time; Including Particular Accounts of the Manufactures and Commerce of Each Country.
Harris, John, 1667?-1719.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]-48- Books
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To the Rt. Honble. and Rt. Revd. the Lord James Bishop of Hereford, ... the mayors of Hereford and Monmouth, the bailiff of the borough of Leominster, the ... vicar of Leominster, and the surviving trustees of the navigation of the rivers Wye and Lug, the humble representatio of the barge-owners, and others, concerned in the said navigation, particularly that of the river Wye, ...
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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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The report of Mess. John Grundy, Langley Edwards, and John Smeaton, engineers, concerning the present ruinous state and condition, of the River Witham, and the Navigation thereof, from the city of Lincoln, thro' Boston, to it's outfall into the sea ; And of the Fen Lands on both Sides the said River. Together with proposals and schemes for restoring, Improving, and Preserving the said river and Navigation, And also for effecting the Drainage of the said Fen Lands. To which is annexed a plan, and proper estimates of the Expences in performing the several Works recommended for those Purposes.
Date: [1761?]- Books
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The new seaman's guide, and coaster's companion, Containing complete sailing directions for ships, both outward and homeward bound, through the River Thames, and all its entrances, the British and Bristol Channels, on both coasts, including all the harbours; the coast of Wales; West Coasts of England and Scotland; the South coasts of Ireland; and the islands of Man, Scilly, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, &c. Also the East Coast of Great Britain, with the Orkney, Shetland, and Western Islands; the Coasts of Flanders, Holland, and Germany; the North Sea, Cattegat, Sound, Baltic, gulf of Finland, and northern navigation to the White Sea. And all the useful tables, viz. tables of the magnetic courses, and distances from place to place, for all the Coasts of Europe, and many of Africa and Asia: with the variations. A table of the distances by water, in miles, from London to the principal ports in Great Britain, Ireland, part of France, Flanders, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, throughout the Baltic and the Mediterrean. Copious tables of latitudes and longitudes, from the best and latest observations: and improved and corrected tide tables; to which are subjoined, easy methods of sinding the Epagt, the moon's age, and the day of new moon. A new and correct edition: improved and augmented by many important additions and observations from new surveys. By John Diston, M. Downie, master in the Royal Navy, and Alexander Ingram,teacher of Navigation and mathematics in Leith, and author of the newly much improved and corrected edition of Simson's Euclid; as also of the principles of geography, and of the corrected and enlarged edition of Hutton's arithmetic and key.
Diston, John.Date: 1800- Books
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The seaman's companion : being a plain guide to the understanding of arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy. Applied chiefly to navigation: and furnished with a table of meridional parts, to every third minute: with excellent and easie ways of keeping a reckoning at sea, never in print before. Also, a catalogue of the longitude and latitude of the principal places in the world with other useful things. The third edition corrected and amended. By Matthew Norwood, mariner.
Norwood, MatthewDate: [1678]- Books
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An explanation for keeping a ship's traverse at sea, by the columbian ready reckoner. By John Fitch.
Fitch, John, 1743-1798.Date: 1793- Books
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The elements of navigation; containing the theory and practice. With the necessary tables, ... To which is added, A treatise of marine fortification. ... By J. Robertson, ...
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.Date: 1796- 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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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]- 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, 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 revis'd, and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics, & F. R. S.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,LIX. [1759]- Books
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To the magistrates and town-council of Paisley.
Whitworth, Robert, active 1773-1797.Date: 1786?]- Books
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A description of a new instrument for taking the latitude or other altitudes at sea. With directions for its use.
Hadley, George, 1685-1768.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Navigation new modelled: 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, calculated to the new stile, and the projection of the sphere orthographic and stereographic. Also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longtitude by a solar observation. The ninth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson. Revised and corrected by William Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, and F.R.S.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Navigation compleated: Being a new method never before attain'd to by any. Whereby the true longitude of any place in the world may be found, whether differing in longitude only, or both in longitude and latitude from any place in the habitable world, by new invented mathematical instruments, viz. The complete navigator, or universal chart. The accute astronomer, compass, admitting of no variation in any latitude, &c. distance-reel and discoverer. By the uses whereof, the certainty of the easting and westing of the globe may be discovered as exactly as the northing and southing already are, and to give at any altitude (having the suns declination, the true latitude, longitude, hour and azimuth all at once by ocular inspection, thereby making the sea barring winds, &c. as direct and plain a path for ships to sail, as the land for travelling. By Francis Cawood, London, student in the mathematicks.
Cawood, Francis.Date: MDCCX. [1710]- 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, 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 revis'd and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics, & F. R. S.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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The sea-man's practice: Containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compass of the Earth and sea, and the quantity of degree in our English measures. Also an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning or journal at sea, in any kind or manner of sailing. With certain tables and other rules used in navigation. As also the plotting and surveying of places: the latitude of the principal places in England: the variation of the compass: the finding of the currents at sea, and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks.
Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.Date: 1702- 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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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.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour : containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as island, the strate Davids, the isle of Jan-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together with new tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1669.
Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673Date: 1667- 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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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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The practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant. Being a complete system of practical navigation, improved, and rendered easy to any common capacity. The whole being exemplified in a journal kept from London to Madeira, and back to England. Wherein is Shewn, How to allow for Lee-Way, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Set of the Currents, &c. and to correct the dead Reckoning by an Observation, in all Cases. The Method of Mooring, Unmooring, and Working a Ship in all difficult Cascs at Sea, on a Lee-Shore, or coming into Harbour. The Manner of Managing the great Guns; of Forming the Line; of an Engagement at Sea; and of Surveying Coasts and Harbours; with an Explanation of the Sea Terms. The New Method of finding the Latitude by two Altitudes of the Sun; and of finding the Longitude by the Moon's Distance from the Sun or fixed Star. To which are added, the tables of difference of latitude and departure to 300 Miles Distance; New Solar Tables; the Table of Natural Sines; a new Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places, according to the latest Observations; a Table, shewing the Times of the rising and setting of the Sun, Moon, fixed Stars, and Planets; and all other tables useful at sea. Constructed upon a new plan. By John Hamilton Moore, Teacher of Navigation, &c. No. 104 in the Minories, Tower-Hill, London. one shewing the Solar System, the other the Terms of Geography at one View.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Navigation made easy and familiar to the most common capacity: or the young sailor's sure guide, and scholar's best instructor in the art of navigation. Comprehending every modern Improvement of real Utility, and divested of all extraneous Matter, not immediately relating to the Subject, by Way of Dialogue. In four books. Book I. Contains the Nature and Use of Logarithms, Geometry, and Plane Trigonometry, both right angled and oblique. II. Explains Terms in Sailing, with the Cases in Plane Sailing, also Traverse Sailing, Parallel and Middle Latitude, Mereator's, Oblique, and Current Sailing, and turning to Windward. III. Of he Requisites for Dead Reckoning, discovering Currents, High Water, Tides, and Trade Winds, &c. and the Variation of the Compass, Meridian, and double Altitudes of the Sun for correcting Latitude both by natural Sines and Logarithms, the Moon's Distance from the Sun or known fixed Stars for determining the Longitude, with a Method of finding the Longitude by a good common Watch, the Use of Instruments, and many general Observations of great Use to the practical Seaman. IV. Contains a Journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira, to which are annexed Observations on the several Days Works during the Voyage. To all which An Introduction is prefixed, containing a concise System of Arithmetic, adapted purposely for Seamen; and to the whole Every Table is added which the latest Improvements have made necessary; all which have been examined with a critical Attention, and several Errors corrected and Additions made to those Tables taken from the first Authority; Forming together the most Concise, correct, and methodical Work of the Kind extant. By the Rev. John Malham, Teacher of Navigation and the Classics, in Plymouth-Dock; and Author of the New Universal Companion, the School-Master's Complete Companion, &c.
Malham, John, 1747-1821.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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A state of facts respecting some differences which have arisen betwixt His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater, and the proprietors of the navigation from the Trent to the Mersey. By order of the committee, 24th. and 25th. Feb. 1785.
Company of proprietors of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey.Date: 1785]