The mariner's jewel: or, a pocket companion for the ingenious. Containing decimal arithmetick; extraction of the square root; To know the Eurthen, and how to Rig a Ship; With an Easie and Exact Method for all Gunners, Carpenters, and Boatswanes, whereby to know the Expence of their Stores every Month, and what they have Remaining; With Proper Directions for making of Masts and Yards according to Proportion; With a new List of the Royal Navy; A General Pay-Table for all Degrees of Men; An Abstract of Parliament for the Encouragement of Seamen, with Her Majesty's Approbation hereto; A Guide for Pursers and Stewards; The most usual Terms at Sea explain'd, with Directions how to Work a Ship at Sea; And a Compendium of Sea Gunnery; With several other things needful to be understood by all sorts of Sea-Faring Men. By James Love, Mathematician.
- Love, James (Mathematician)
- Date:
- 1705
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for Eben. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1705.
Physical description
203,[1]p. ; 120.
Contributors
Edition
The fifth edition, corrected and enlarged.
References note
ESTC T97211
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.