The mariner's new calendar Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension: Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars: Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places: A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tide Table: The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings at coming into the Channel: With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematics. The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Colson, Nathaniel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son, on Tower-Hill 1761, 1761
Subjects:	Nautical Almanacs
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1252900700?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa