The new American practical navigator
Subtitle: being an epitome of navigation containing all the tables necessary to be used with the Nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea ... the whole exemplified in a journal kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced ... with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ...
By: by Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1880
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
Subjects: Navigation; Nautical astronomy; Tables
Other titles: Nautical almanac.
Notes: Includes index.