An epitome of navigation: containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles and their Use and Application in Plain Sailing, Mercator's Sailing, and Great Circle Sailing, as also in Astronomy and Geography, and Rules for finding the Variation of the Compass and correcting the Course. Together with tables of the sun and stars Right Ascension and Declination, Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places, Of Meridional Parts. Likewise a Traverse Table, A Perpetual Almanack; and other things very useful in the Art of Navigation. And the logarithm sines and tangents, with the Logarithms of Natural Numbers, from 1 to 10000, according to those exact Tables formerly set forth, by Henry Gellibrand. Carefully corrected and enlarged with many useful additions, by James Atkinson, Teacher of Navigation.
- Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636.
- Date:
- 1701
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1701.
Physical description
81,[47];[182]p.,plates : ill. ; 80.
Contributors
References note
ESTC N9273
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.