The new American practical navigator
Subtitle: being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations: and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: : illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal, kept rom Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced. : Also, the demonstration of the usual rules of trigonometry: problems in mensuration, surveying and gauging: dictionary of sea terms: and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea. : With an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars: rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses or occultations: and a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes
By: By Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. Fellow of the royal societies of London, Edinburgh and Dublin; of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia: of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, &c
Contributors: Hooker, William, engraver; Bunce, George F., printer; E. & G.W. Blunt (Firm)
Edition: Seventh stereotype edition.
Publisher: Published by E. & G.W. Blunt, proprietors, no. 154 Water-St. corner of Maiden-Lane. George F. Bunce, printer
Published: 1832
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
Subjects: Navigation; Nautical astronomy
Notes: Plates engraved by William Hooker.

Copyright 1832 by E. & G.W. Blunt.

"Nautical works published and sold ... by Edmund and George W. Blunt"--p. [619-620].

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