A practical method, To Discover the Longitude at Sea, By a New Contrived Automaton. Freed from all the Various Effects of Air in different Climates, &c. And not Liable to Disorder by the Irregular Motion of a Ship. The whole Method Rendered Plain and Easie to be Understood by every Mariner. With an account of the author's new instrument for taking the latitude more accurately at sea, than hath hitherto been practised. Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration, and Use of the Publick. By John Ward. of Chester. Author of the Young Mathematicians Guide, &c.
- Ward, John, active 1698-1709.
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- [1714]
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London : printed for James Woodward, at the Bible in Scalding-Alley, near Stocks-Market, [1714]
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[8],32,[4]p. : ill.,tables ; 80.
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ESTC T153758
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