The mariner's new calendar
Subtitle: containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry, with the extraction of the square and cube roots : also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same : together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension, of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars, of the latitude and longitude of places : a large table of difference of latitude and departure for the exact working a traverse : also the description and use of the sea-quadrant fore-staff and nocturnal, necessary problems in plane-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms and by Gunter's scale : a tide table, the courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. and the soundings at coming into the Channel, with directions for sailing into some principal harbours
By: by Nathaniel Colson, student in mathematics ; the whole revis'd, and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Contributors: Mountaine, William, -1779, editor; Jno. Mount and Tho. Page; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill
Published: 1770
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Nautical almanacs; Early works to 1800; Navigation; Nautical astronomy; Ephemerides; Naval art and science; Arithmetic; Study and teaching; Geometry
Work titles: Mariners new kalendar
Notes: With a half-title

English short title catalogue, N70738

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.