The mariner's compass rectified: containing tables, shewing the true hours 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 that the Sun and Stars rise and set with: And Tables of Amplitude. All which Tables are Calculated from the Equinoctial to 60 Degrees of Latitude, &c. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. By Andrew Wakely, Math, Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged with many useful additions. By J. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematics.
- Wakely, Andrew.
- Date:
- 1750
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London : printed for W. and J. Mount, and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, where you may have all Sorts of Sea-Books, 1750.
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272p. ; 80.
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References note
ESTC T97966
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.