Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art
By: by John Seller
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 79030
Publisher: Printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page
Published: 1718
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Navigation -- Early works to 1800; Navigation -- Tables
Genres: Early works to 1800; Tables
Other titles: Practical navigation; Introduction to the whole art
Notes: Added t.-p., engraved

"Containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, plain Mercator, and great-circle-sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass, and ring-dial, the fore-staff, quadrant, and nocturnal; the plain scale, Gunter's scale, plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes and virtues of the loadstone. Useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination and right-ascension; of the stars right ascension and declination; the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of miridional [sic] parts; likewise a new traverse-table, and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea. Also a table of 10000 logarithm sines, tangents and secants. All carefully corrected, with many useful additions."

Sabin, 79030

Microfiche. [Woodbridge, Conn.] : Primary Source Microfilm, 2004. 4 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; fiche 48249-48252)