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 a fixed Star. To which are added, the tables of difference 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
Subjects:	Navigation / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1245600300?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa