Norwood's system of navigation
Subtitle: teaching the whole art, in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath been hitherto done. Shewing, the projection of the plain scale: the sphere in plaino: astronomical problems useful in navigation: traverse tables: right lin'd triangles, geometrically, by tables of sines, tangents, logarithms, and by Gunter's ruler; applied to Plain and Mercator's sailing. Illustrated by schemes on copper-plates. How to make observations at sea or shore. Sure and easie ways of reckoning by latitude, longitude, and meridional distance; with tables for both ways of sailing. The longitude and latitude of principal places. Tables for the suns place and declination; of the longitudes, latitudes, declinations, right ascensions, and seasons of some noted stars. Spherical triangles; and their use in great circle sailing. The use of the globes, Azimuth compass for variation. And also of sea-gunnery. The description and use of a new instrument, called Encyclologium, or the sliding circles; which, wit
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2504:3
Publisher: printed for H. Sawbridge, T. Guy, T. Parkhurst, J. Robinson, and G. Conyers
Published: 1685
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Navigation -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes; A triangular canon logarithmical
Notes: "A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes" and "A triangular canon logarithmical" each have a separate dated title page; register is continuous

Reproduction of original in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) N1346A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2504:3).