11 results filtered with: Navigation - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A letter to a Member of Parliament, in relation to the bill now depending, for the repeal of a clause in the Navigation Act.
A. B.Date: 1720]- Books
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Answers for Thomas Bontein, Esq; late naval officer at Jamaica; to the bill of suspension presented in name of George Fitzgerald, and James Egan of London, merchants; and William and Robert Alexanders merchants in Edinburgh, their factors; ...
Bontein, Thomas.Date: 1749]- Books
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Sailing and fighting instructions for His Majesty's Fleet.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: 1781?]- Books
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A summary view of the proposed canal, from Leeds to Liverpool; and of it's importance to the public.
Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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An examination and refutation of a late pamphlet, intitled, Considerations on the Navy Bill. Wherein the present power of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty over half pay officers, is shewn to be fully sufficient to answer every good end and useful purpose. By a Real Sea Officer.
West, Temple, 1713-1757.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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To the landowners and traders of the counties of Worcester and Gloucester. The carriage of goods and merchandize is an object of such importance in a commercial state, ...
Freeholder.Date: 1785]- Books
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To the landowners and traders of the counties of Salop and Worcester. The carriage of goods and merchandize is an object of such importance in a commercial state, ...
Freeholder.Date: 1786]- Books
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Surveys of the coast and harbours of North America, intitled Atlantic Neptune; prepared engraved and published by command of government, for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain: by J.F.W. DesBarres, Esq; being a work of the highest benefit to navigation and commerce; ...
Date: 1781?]- Books
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A letter to a friend, setting forth the case of the author of the marine surveyor. Being an instrument design'd for the improvement of navigation, and for correcting many errors in that useful art, on which the happiness of Great Britain so much depends.
De Saumarez, Henry, approximately 1655-Date: 1725- Books
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Recommendation by sundry noblemen and gentlemen, for completing the great canal of communication between the friths of Forth and Clyde. 1779.
Date: 1779- Books
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The universal navigator; or, A Comprehensive Treatise of navigation; containing, I. The most useful Problems in Geometry, Measuring of Plank, Timber Bales, Boxes, and Tunnage of Ships. II. Trigonometry with its application to the taking of Heights and Distances, accessible and inaccessible. III. Navigation, (viz.) Plain Sailing, Traverse Sailing, Mercator, Middle Latitude, and Parallel Sailing, with all the several examples wrought Geometrically, Trignometrically, by Logarithms, Arithmetically, by Natural Sines and Tangents, Instrumentally, and by Tables of Latitude and Departure. To which is annexed a curious Collection of Questions to exercise all the above kind of Sailing, with a large and correct Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, and Meridional parts. Also a Table of Latitude and Longitude of Places. IV. Great Circle Sailing, with a curious Collection of Questions applied thereto, several of which have never appeared in any Treatise of Navigation extant. Oblique Sailing, Turning to Windward, Sailing in Currents, with a Collection of Questions both curious, useful, and entertaining, to exercise the same. V. The Gregorian Calender, shewing the best method of finding the Prime-Epact, Moon's age, time of High Water, with a large Tide-Table, alphabetically digested, the manner of working Observations, the best Method of finding the variation of the Compass. To keep a Sea Journal in the best approved method, both in Merchant's Ships and the Royal Navy, also to correct the Dead Reckoning by a good Observation, by the easiest and best approved Method, illustrated with full, proper, and practical examples of the same, together with all useful Astronomical Tables, viz. the Sun's Declination, a Table of Logarithms, of Nat. and Artificial Sines and Tangents, with a curious collection of Astronomical Problems useful in taking Observations at any time of the Day, or by two Observations, and having the time between them, without regarding the Hour; several of them have not appeared in any other Author. With an appendix, shewing how to work all the cases in navigation by the pen arithmetically, without Books, Tables, or Instruments. By William Chambers, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Chambers, William, teacher of the mathematics.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]