The practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assitant
Subtitle: being a complete system of practical navigation, improved and rendered easy to any common capacity, the whole exemplified in a journal kept from London to Madiera and back to England ... contructed upon a new plan
By: by John Hamilton Moore, master of the Academy at Brentford, formerly teacher of the mathematics in the Royal Navy
Contributors: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fourth edition, carefully corrected, and greatly enlarged by the author.
Publisher: Printed for and sold by B. Law, in Ave Maria Lane, and G. Robinson, in Pater-noster Row
Published: 1779
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Navigation; Early works to 1800; Nautical astronomy
Notes: "Wherein is shewn how to allow for lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, set of the currents, &c. and to correct the dead reckoning by an observation, in all cases. The method of mooring, unmooring and working a ship in all difficult cases at sea, on a lee shore, or coming into harbour. The manner of managing the great guns, of forming the line, of an engagement at sea, and of surveying coasts and harbours with explanation of the sea terms. The new method of finding the latitude by two altitudes of the sun, and of finding the longitude by the moon's distance from the sun or a fixed star. To which are added, the tables of difference of latitude and departure to 300 miles distance, new solar tables, the table of natural sines, a new table of the latitude and longitude of places, according to the latest observations, and all other tables useful at sea."

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