Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles : plain, mercator, great-circle sailing, and astronomical problems : the use of divers instruments ... : sundry useful tables in navigation, and a table of 10,000 logarithms, and of the logarithm-sines, tangents, and secants / by John Seller.

  • Seller, John, active 1658-1698.
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1694
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Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles : plain, mercator, great-circle sailing, and astronomical problems : the use of divers instruments ... : sundry useful tables in navigation, and a table of 10,000 logarithms, and of the logarithm-sines, tangents, and secants / by John Seller. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by J.D. for the author ... and Richard Mount ..., 1694.

Physical description

8 unnumbered pages, 355 pages, 55 unnumbered pages, 92 unnumbered pages, 8 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

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Edition

The 7th ed., carefully corrected.

References note

ESTC R232799
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S2483B

Notes

Added, engraved t.p.
"A table containing ten chiliads of logarithms" ([55] p., 3rd group) and "A triangular canon logarithmical" ([92] p., 4th group) have special title pages dated 1694.

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