Epitome of the art of navigation or, a short, easy and methodical way to become a compleat navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plane 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 Plane, Mercator's, and Great-Circle Sailing, Geography, Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plane 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
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed for William and John Mount and Thomas Page, on Tower-Hill
1749, M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T137137. - Half-title: 'Atkinson's Epitome of the art of navigation'. - Reproduction of original from British Library |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (447,[1]p.,10 plates) 8° |