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 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:
- 1743
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London : Printed for William Mount and Thomas Page, on Tower-Bill, where you may have all sorts of sea-books, 1743.
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224,235-282p. : ill. ; 80.
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ESTC N34891