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 ... The whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced ... With an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ...
By: By Nathaniel Bowditch ... and, since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch.
Contributors: Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.
Edition: 30th new stereotype ed.
Publisher: E. & G. W. Blunt
Published: 1861
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Navigation.; Nautical astronomy.