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: also, the substance of that examination, every candidate for a commission in the Royal navy, and officer in the Honourable 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. So that this book, and the nautical almanac, will be found fully sufficient for the seaman and teacher's use, and is rendered easy to any common capacity. The twelfth edition, constructed on a new plan, and illustrated with copper-plates. By John Hamilton Moore, teacher of navigation, hydrographer and chart-seller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Moore, John Hamilton
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Printed for and sold by B. Law, in Stationers' Court; G.G. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster Row; and the author, on Tower Hill 1796, 1796
Subjects:	Nautical Astronomy
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1389000200?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa