The mariners new kalendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension. Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks

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[1748]