A treatise on ship-building and navigation
Subtitle: In three parts wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector, for readily laying down and delineating ships, whether of similar or dissimilar forms. Also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts, of difference of latitude and departure, of logarithms, and of artificial sines, tangents, and secants. With an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, mem. of the R. Acad. of Sciences, fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Surveyor General of the French marine. To which is now added a supplement, containing a translation of what M. Bouguer, another French author has written on that subject: and M. Duhamel's method of finding the center of gravity, with some remarks by the author. The whole illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates
By: By Mungo Murray
Edition: The second edition.
Series: Harvard College Library preservation digitization program
Publisher: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand
Published: 1765
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Shipbuilding; Early works to 1800; Navigation
Other titles: Elements of naval architecture: or, A practical treatise on ship-building; Supplement to the Treatise on ship-building
Notes: Various pagings.

The English abridgment of Duhamel du Monceau's treatise has special title-pages: The elements of naval architecture: or, A practical treatise on ship-building. By M. Duhamel du Monceau ... carefully abridged by Mungo Murray. London: printed for A. Millar, MDCCLXIV.

The supplement has special title-page: Supplement to the Treatise on ship-building. Containing extracts translated from M. Bouguer's Traité du navire. Together with M. Duhamel's Method of finding the center of gravity ... London: printed for A. Millar, MDCCLXV.

Plate xii has rotating part.

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