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.
Date:
1694
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pabiqation: Introductionto the whole Art. nc me Practical | CHAP. IL A Preliminary Difconrfe of Navegation and Avithmetick. . _ 3h SS ahd syoy og hh | SHOT. oh ch | Of the Preliminary Difcourfe of Navigation, : AVIGATION (that ufeful part of the Adathematicks) | ; is a Science which has been highly valued by the Antients, efpecially by our Anceftors-of this land, it being indeed the Beauty and Bulwark of England, the Wall and Wealth of Britain, and the Bridg that joins it to the Univerfe. It confif's of two general Parts. Firft, That which may be called the Domestick, or more common Navigation, (1 mean Coafting, or Sailing, along the Shore:) | This Pare employs the Mariners\Compa/s and Lead,.as the chief: Inftruments 3, Tbe = nee cA APN SAA SNE RE A A RE A a NL aa