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A complete collection of tables for navigation and nautical astronomy. With simple, concise, and accurate methods, for all the calculations useful at sea; particularly for deducing the longitude from lunar distances, and the latitude from two altitudes of the sun and the interval of time between the observations / By Joseph de Mendoza Rios.
Mendoza y Riós, José de, 1763-1816.Date: 1809- Books
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The mariner's mirror; or, a new treatise on navigation, in theory and practice. Part I. Contains the principles of navigation, in a Method more universal than any extant, including the fundamental Theorems of Nautical Astronomy; Correction of the Lunar Parallax; Tables of Meridional Parts adapted to the Figure of the Earth; with a new Construction of several Nautical Scales, and other Instruments. Part II. A Method of Finding the Longitude of a Ship at Sea; and The Place and Latitude of the Moon by Interpolation. Part III. A System of Logarithms in all the different Kinds, with their Applications; illustrated by the Logistic Curve at large; with the Construction and Delineation of all the Logarithmic Lines and Scales. Part IV. The young trigonometer's new guide; with Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained. Illustrated with eight copper-plates. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1782]- Books
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A letter to the practisers, promoters, and learners of navigation. Containing a double view of navigation and nautical astronomy, by which all the problems ... are solv'd only by tabular inspection, in a book ... entitled, Compendium artis nauticæ, &c. ... By John Collier, ...
Collier, John, teacher of Mathematics.Date: 1730- Books
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A tutor to astronomy & geography. Or, The use of the Copernican spheres : in two books. The first being an explanation of the Copernican hypothesis and spheres. The second proving the phœnomena solved by the earths motion, as well as by its supposed stability; as appears by the application of these spheres to problemes astronomical, geographical, nautical, astrological, gnomonical, and trigonometrical. By Joseph Moxon, hydrographer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691Date: 1665- Books
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Astronomie nautique: ou élemens d'astronomie, tant pour un observatoire fixe, que pour une observatoire mobile / Par M. de Maupertuis.
Maupertuis, 1698-1759.Date: [1743]