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 that the sun and stars rise and set with: and tables of amplitude. All which tables are calculated from the equinoctial to 60 degrees of latitude, &c. With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation: also a table of the latitude and longitude of places. By Andrew Wakely, math. Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged with many useful additions. By J. Atkinson, teacher of the mathematics.

Date:

1747