The advancement of the art of navigation
Subtitle: in two parts, the first, shewing by a new canon of sines, tangents, and secants, how to resolve all cases of right-lined triangles, only by looking into the tables, without any calculation : particularly applied to all the three kinds of sailing : viz. [brace] by the plain-chart, by mercater's chart, by a great circle : and to the art of surveying : the second part shewing several observations for the better ordering the logline, and for the more exact and ready measuring, not only minutes, but seconds of time : with some new experiments for the more constant finding of a ship's way
Edition: The second edition / corrected by the author, Henry Phillips
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1039:28
Publisher: Printed by J. Gain for W. Fisher ... and R. Smith ...
Published: 1685
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Navigation -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Each part has special t.p. and separate paging

Contains tables

Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library

Wing P2043

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1980 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 : 1039:28)

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