New American practical navigator
Subtitle: being an epitome of navigation; containing all tables necessary to be used with Nautical almanac in determining latitude, and longitude by lunar observations, and keeping complete reckoning at sea; illustratedby proper rules and examples; whole exemplified in journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all rules of navigation are introduced; also, demonstration of usual rules of trigonometry; problems in mensuration, surveying, and gauging; dictionary of sea terms; and manner of performing most useful evolutions at sea; with appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of sun and moon and occultations of fixed stars; rules for finding longitude of place by observations of eclipses, occultations, and transits of moon's limb over meridian; also new method for finding latitude by two altitudes.
Series: H.O. Pub -- No. [9, 1st ed.]
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1868
Place of publication: [Washington?
Format: Microform
Subjects: Navigation.
Other titles: New American practical navigator