The advancement of the art of navigation
Subtitle: in two parts : the first shewing by a new canon of sines, tangents, and secants, how to resolve all cases of right-lined triangles, onely by looking into the tables without any calculation : particularly applied to all the three kinds of sailing : viz. by the plain chart, by Mercaters chart, by a great circle, and to the art of surveying : the second part, shewing several observations for the better odering of the log-line, and for the more exact and ready measuring, not onely of minutes, but seconds of time, with some new experiments and engines for the more constant finding of a ships way
By: by Henry Philippes
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 472:9
Publisher: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn for George Hulock ...
Published: 1657
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Navigation; Early works to 1800
Notes: 2d part has special t.p.

Inserted between the first and second parts is possibly a first edition of another work of Phillippes consisting of two parts which was published separately in 1708. The first part: The seaman's canon of triangles, London, 1657. The second part: A brief canon of triangles, London, 1657.

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