The mariner's jewel Or, A pocket companion for the ingenious. Containing decimal arithmetick; extraction of the square root; to know the burthen, and how to rig a ship; with an easie and exact method for all gunners, carpenters, and boatswains, whereby to know the expence of their stories every month, and what they have remaining; with proper directions for making of masts and yards according to proportion; with a new list of the royal navy; a general pay-table for all degrees of men; an abstract of Parliament for the encouragement of seamen, with Her Majesty's approbation thereto; a guide for pursers and stewards; the most usual terms at sea explained, with directions how to work a ship at sea; and a compendium of sea gunnery; with several other things needful to be understood by all sorts of seasaring men

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Love, James
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Printed for Alexander Sims, at the Bible in Betts's-street, Ratcliff-High-Way; and sold by Ebem. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Rich. Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill; and Jer. Seller, and Ch. price, at the Hermitage in Wapping 1703, 1703
Edition:	The foruth edition, corrected and enlarged by James Love, mathematician
Subjects:	Navigation / Handbooks, Manuals, Etc / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1430901000?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa