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• The practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant : Being an epitome of navigation: including the different methods of working the lunar observations. With Every Particular Requisite for Keeping a Complete Journal at Sea. Likewise The Methods of finding the Latitude by two Altitudes of the Sun; by the Meridian Altitude of the Moon, the Planets, or fixed Stars; and to compute the Altitudes of the Sun, Moon, or Stars, without an Observation. The Manner of Mooring, Unmooring, and Working a Ship in all difficult Cases at Sea. With Directions for conducting her out of Dock, and into the principal Ports and Harbours in the British Channel. Which is The Substance of that Examination, every Candidate for a Commission in the Royal Navy, and Officer in the Honorable East-India Company's Service, must pass through, previous to their being appointed: This, with the Sea Terms, are particularly recommended to the Attention of all young Gentlemen designed for, or belonging to the Sea. To this edition are added, besides many important Improvements, the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac in Determining the Longitude at Sea. The different Methods are exemplified and rendered easy to any common Capacity. Also, a new table, the largest and most correct hitherto published, of the latitudes and longitudes of the principal ports and Headlands in the known World; and all the other Tables useful at Sea. Revised and corrected with such Care that they may be depended on. By John Hamilton Moore, Teacher of Navigation, Hydrographer and Chart-Seller to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence
  by: Moore, John Hamilton
  Published: (1791)
• 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, and back to England. 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, or by the Planets; and of finding the Longitude by the Moon's Distance from the Sun or a 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, Formerly Teacher of the Mathematics in the Royal Navy
  by: Moore, John Hamilton
  Published: (1781)
• Tables requisite to be used with the nautical ephemeris for finding the latitude and longitude at sea : Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude
  Published: (1781)
• Tables requisite to be used with the astronomical and nautical ephemeris. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude
  Published: (1766)
• The new practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude; and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe ... The first American, from the thirteenth English edition of John Hamilton Moore. Improved by the introduction of several new tables, and by large additions to the forme tables, and revised and corrected by a skilful mathematician and navigator. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which are added, some general instructions and information to merchants, masters of vessels, and others concerned in navigation, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs
  by: Moore, John Hamilton
  Published: (1800)