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John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.
Glindoni, Henry Gillard, 1852-1913.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 47369i- Books
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A state of facts respecting some differences which have arisen betwixt His Grace the Duke of Bridgewater, and the proprietors of the navigation from the Trent to the Mersey. By order of the committee, 24th. and 25th. Feb. 1785.
Company of proprietors of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey.Date: 1785]- Books
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Sir, You are desired to meet the committee for improving the navigation of the River Thames, and for preventing encroachments on the said river, on board the navigation barge, at Staines, on Saturday, the 7th day of July 1798, at eight o'clock in the morning, and proceed from thence down the river at nine precisely, ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: [1798]- Books
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A rule, order, or bye law, to be observed and kept by the bargemasters, ... concerned in the navigating ... any barge, boat, or vessel, on the rivers Thames and Isis, ... ordered at a general meeting of the Commissioners, ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1786]- Books
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A complete treatise of practical navigation demonstrated from it's [sic] first principles: with all the necessary tables. To which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, ... By Archibald Patoun, ...
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1759- Books
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Practical navigation, or an introduction to the whole art, containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems; The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles; Plain, Mercator, and Great-Circle Sailing; Sundry useful Problems in Astronomy; The Use of Instruments; The Azimuth-Compass and Ring - Dial. The Fore-Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plain - Scale, Gunter's - Scale, Plain - Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, and Virtues of the Loadstone. Useful Tables of the Moon's Age, of the Tides, of the Sun's Place, Declination and Right Ascension; of the Star's Right-Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Meridional Parts; Likewise a new Traverse - Table, and the Use thereof in keeping a Reckoning at Sea: Also a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm - Sines, Tangents, and Secants. All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King
Seller, John, active 1658-1698.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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A complete treatise of practical navigation demonstrated from it's first principles: with all the necessary tables. To which are added the useful theorems of mensuration, surveying, ... By Archibald Patoun, ...
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1765- Books
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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, a short, easy and methodical way to become a compleat navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plain and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry, Plain and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental, and Logarithmic; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plain, Mercator's and Great-Circle-Sailing, Geography, Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plain-Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship's Way. A Traverse-Table; a Table of Meridional Parts; a Table of 10,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully Corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The whole revis'd and corrected, with the utmost care, by William Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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Reports to the Lords Commissioners of Police, relative to the navigation of the Rivers Forth, Guide, and Devon. M.DCC.LXXIII.
Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The vvhole art of navigation in five books ... / by Captain Daniel New-House.
Newhouse, DanielDate: 1685- Books
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The vvhole art of navigation in five books ... / by Captain Daniel New-House.
Newhouse, DanielDate: 1686- Books
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Navigation new modell'd: or, a treatise of geometrical trigonometrical arithmetical instrumental and practical navigation. Teaching, how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, ... With an appendix, touching currents, ... To which is added, a correct table of logarithms, ... By Henry Wilson, ...
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: 1715- Books
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Calder and Hebble Navigation. For the better regulating of masters of boats, bargemen, and others, employed upon the rivers or cuts of this navigation, ...
Calder and Hebble Navigation (Firm)Date: [1785]- Books
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Some observations relative to navigation: Humbly submitted to the consideration of the legislature.
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A complete treatise of practical navigation, demonstrated from it's first principles: with all the necessary tables. To which are added the useful theorems of mensuration, surveying, and gauging; With their Application to Practice. By Archibald Patoun, F.R.S.
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1770- Books
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A complete treatise of practical navigation demonstrated from it's first principles: with all the necessary tables. To which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, Surveying, and Gauging; with their Application to Practice. By Archibald Patoun, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1762- Books
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The whole art of navigation : in five books. Containing I. The principles of navigation and geometry. II. The principles of astronomy. III. The practical part of navigation. IV. The description and use of such instruments, as are useful in taking observations at sea, and therein, the use of a large new sinical quadrant, performing with more exactness than any yet extant, all questions relating to navigation; rendered so easie as to be understood by the meanest capacity. V. Useful tables in navigation, wherein those of the suns and stars declination and right ascension, &c. are newly calculated. The whole delivered in a very easie and familiar stile, by way of dialogue between a tutor and his scholar. By Captaine Daniel New-house.
Newhouse, DanielDate: MDCXCVIII. [1698]- Books
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Report of William Chapman, engineer, on the means of making Woodford River navigable, from Lough-Erne to Woodford-Lough, as an off-branch from the Lough-Erne and Ballyshannon navigation; (with Observations on the practicability of carrying it forward to the Shannon.) Published by order of the subscribers to this branch, 1793.
Chapman, William, 1749-1832.Date: [1793]- Books
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The modern navigator's compleat tutor: or, a treatise of the whole art of navigation in its theory and practice, curiosity and utility. Containing I. Domestick or Coasting Navigation, Sundry Notes of the Moon's Motions, Calender, Tides, &c. II. Theoretical Navigation, by Various Methods, viz. Geometrical, Logarithmetical, Instrumental, Tabular, and by the Pen only (without Tables or Instruments.) Together with Practical Astronomy, the Description, Construction, and Use of the Plain and Mercator's Charts, and other Nautical Instruments, &c. III. Practical Navigation, The Application of the Theory to Practice; in keeping a Sea-Journal, the working a Day's Log at Sea, in all Cases of Winds and Weather, making or short'ning Sail, Trying, Hulling, &c. And, the manner of making allowance for all known Impediments whatsoever (with Rational Corrections;) Illustrated with full, proper and practical Examples of the same. The whole more amply and plainly demonstrated, than in any Treatise of this kind extant. To which are added, all necessary tables, Nautical and Astronomical, for the Mariner's Practice, by Inspection. Also an appendix, Touching Pleasant and Critical Questions in Navigation; with divers other things both Curious and Useful in this Art. By Joshua Kelly, Mariner, and Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Kelly, Joshua.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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An advertisement, Necessary to be Observed in the Navigation Up and Down the Channel of England. Communicated by a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1701- Books
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Report from the Committee of the Commissioners of the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis appointed to inquire into and report on the best method of improving and amending the said navigation; from the Eton wharf to South Hope and also what part of Mr. Mylne's plan shoul be adopted. ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1793- Books
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An act for improving the navigation of the river Lee from the town of Hertford to the river Thames; and for extending the said navigation to the flood-gates belonging to the town mill in the said town of Hertford.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1767]- Books
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A complete treatise of practical navigation demonstrated from it's first principles: together with all the necessary tables. To which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, surveying, and gauging ; with their Application to Practice. Written for the Use of the Academy in Tower-Street. By Archibald Patoun, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1739- Books
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Navigation new modelled: or, a treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation. Teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, ... Together with all necessary tables, ... The sixth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: 1750- Books
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A bill for making the river Weaver navigable, from Frodsham-Bridge to Northwich, in the county of Chester.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1720]