The mariner's compass rectified. Containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass: With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass upon which they rise and set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Practice in the Art of Navigation. Also A Table of Latitudes and Longitudes of Places. By Andrew Wakely, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate Tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the N.S. By W. Mountaine, Mathematical Examiner to the Hon. Corporation of Trinity-House of Deptford Strond, and F.R.S

  • Wakely, Andrew.
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1779
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London : printed for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount on Tower-Hill; Where may be had all Sorts of Sea-Books, 1779.

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275,[1]p. : ill. ; 80.

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