The mariner's compass rectified
Subtitle: containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with thetrue time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass upon which they rise and set: with tables of amplitudes. Which tables of sun-dials, semidiurnal-arches and amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 degrees of latitude, either north or south. : With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. : Also a table of the latitudes and longitudes of places
By: By Andrew Wakeley, Mathematician. ; Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. ; The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate tables of the sun's declination, adjusted to the new-stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Contributors: Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715; Mountaine, William, -1779
Publisher: Printed for W. and J. Mount, and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, where you may have all sorts of sea books
Published: 1763
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Navigation; Tables; Compass; Nautical astronomy
Notes: First edition probably published 1663; Atkinson's corrected edition 1st published 1694. Cf. NUC pre-56.

Signatures: A-R⁸

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