The practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant Being a complete system of practical navigation, improved, and rendered easy to any common capacity. The whole exemplified in a journal kept from London to Madeira. Wherein IS Shewn, How to allow for Lee-Way, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Set of the Currents, &c. and to correct the dead Reckoning by an Observation, in all Cases. The Method of Mooring, Unmooring, and Working a Ship in all difficult Cases at Sea, on a Lee-Shore, or coming into Harbour. The Manner of Managing the great Guns; of Forming the Line; of an Engagement at Sea; and of Surveying Coasts and Harbours; with an Explanation of the Sea Terms. The New Method of finding the Latitude by two Altitudes of the Sun; and of finding the Longitude by the Moon's Distance from the Sun or fixed Star. To which are added, the tables of differenc of latitude and departure to 300 Miles Distance; New Solar Tables; the Table of Natural Sines; a new Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places, according to the latest Observations; a Table, shewing the Times of the rising and setting of the Sun, Moon, fixed Stars, and Planets; and all other tables useful at sea. Constructed upon a new plan. By John Hamilton Moore, Teacher of Navigation, &c. No. 104 in the Minories, Tower-Hill, London

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, John Hamilton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London printed for and sold by B. Law , in Ave-Maria-Lane ; G. Robinson , Pater-Noster-Row ; and the author, at No. 104, in the Minories, near Tower-Hill 1784, M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
Edition:The eighth edition, carefully corrected, and greatly enlarged by the author. In this edition are added the method of finding the latitude by the moon and planets; and two copper plates
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:Braces in imprint. - English Short Title Catalog, N20494. - In this edition line 4 of the imprint reads: "near Tower-Hill. - Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library. - With a final advertisement leaf
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (xi,[5],304,[204]p.,plates) ill.,map 8°