Epitome of the whole art of navigation: or, a short, easy, and methodical way to become a complete navigator and astronomer; Containing an Introduction to Decimal and Logarithmic Arithmetic, Practical Geometry, Trigonometry Plane and Spherio, Geometrically, and Logarithmically, with their Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plane, Mercator's, and Middle Latitude Sailing, Geography, and Nautical Astronomy; illustrated with Charts and Diagrams: With an Introduction to The Lunar Method of determining the Longitude at Sea. The Gregorian or New Calendar, Description and Use of the Plane Chart, Mercator's Chart, also of Hadley's Octant and Sextant. A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places; Tables of Latitude and Departure to every Quarter Point and Degree of the Compass to 300 Miles Distance; A Table of Meridional Parts, Solar Tables, Natural Since, &c. &c. Also A Table of ... Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines Tangents, and Secants. By James Atkinson, Senior. Much improved enlarged from the best Authors on these Subjects, by John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics, at Edmonton.

  • Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.
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1790
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Epitome of the art of navigation

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London : printed for Mount and Davidson, on Tower-Hill, 1790.

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vi,219,[1],90,[144],ivp.,plates : ill.,maps ; 80.

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ESTC T122289

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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.

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