The practical navigator and seaman's new daily assistant. Being a complete system of practical naviagation, Improved and rendered easy to the meanest Capacity. The whole exemplified in a journal kept from London to the Island of St. Maries, and back again to Falmouth: Wherein is Shewn How to allow for Leeway, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Set of the Currents, &c. and to correct the Dead Reckoning, by an Observation in all Cases. The New Method of finding the Latitude independent of the Meridian Altitude. The Method of finding the Longitude by Celestial Observation: And the Variation Chart. With Tables of the Difference of Latitude and Departure to 300 Miles Distance. And all other Tables useful in Navigation. The Whole constructed upon a New Plan. By J. Hamilton Moore, Teacher of the Mathematics, and late of the Royal Navy.
- Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.
- Date:
- MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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London : printed by W. and J. Richardson, Printers to the Board of Longitude; and sold by Richardson and Urquhart at the Royal Exchange, and May be had of Any of the Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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[8],351,[1]p. ; 80.
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ESTC T101177
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