The seaman's practice: containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: Namely, Touching the Compass of the Earth and Sea, and the Quantity of a Degree in our English Measures. Also An exact Method or Form of keeping a Reckoning or Journal at Sea, in any kind or manner of Sailing. With certain Tables and other Rules used in Navigation. The Latitude of the Principal Places in England: The Variation of the Compass: The finding of the Currents at Sea, and what Allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, Reader of the Mathematicks.

  • Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.
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MDCCXII. [1712]
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London : printed for Richard Mount, in Postern-Row on Tower-Hill, MDCCXII. [1712]

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118p. : ill. ; 40.

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