The seaman's companion : being a plain guide to the understanding of arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy. Applied chiefly to navigation: and furnished with a table of meridional parts, to every third minute: with excellent and easie ways of keeping a reckoning at sea, never in print before. Also, a catalogue of the longitude and latitude of the principal places in the world with other useful things. The third edition corrected and amended. By Matthew Norwood, mariner.
- Norwood, Matthew
- Date:
- [1678]
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About this work
Also known as
Table of meridional parts.
Publication/Creation
London : [print]ed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate near Tower-Hill; Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head and Ralph Smith, at the Bible in Cornhill; Thomas Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Richard Northcot, next St. Peter's-Alley in Cornhill, and at the Anchor and Mariner, on Fishstreet-Hill, [1678]
Physical description
10 unnumbered pages, 203 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of folding plate : illustrations, tables
Contributors
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) N1345A.
Notes
With a table of contents.
Divisional title on p. 147: A table of meridional parts.
Reproduction of the original at the Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2108:09) s1999 miun s