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 that the Sun and Stars rise and set with: And Tables of Amplitude. All which Tables are Calculated from the Equinoctial to 60 deg. 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 Ja Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematicks,

  • Wakely, Andrew.
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1722
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London : printed for Rich. Mount, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, Where you may have all Sorts of Sea-Books, 1722.

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272p. ; 80.

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ESTC T114799

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