Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator
Subtitle: containing, practical geometry, plain and spheric, superficial and solid; with its uses in all kinds of mensuration. Trigonometry, plain and spheric, both geometric, instrumental, and logarithmic; with its uses in navigation, viz. In plain, Mercator's, and great circle-sailing, geography, astronomy, the projection of the sphere, &c. The Gregorian or new calendar, description and use of the plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, hemispheres, and divers other instruments. A new form of keeping a sea-reckoning, or account of a ship's way. A traverse-table; a table of meridional parts; a table of 10,000 logarithms, and logarithmic sines, tangents and secants, carefully corrected
By: By James Atkinson, senior. ; The whole revis'd, and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, teacher of the Mathematics, & F.R.S.
Contributors: Mountaine, William, -1779; Tracy, Jared; Hyde, John
Publisher: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and sons, on Tower-Hill.
Published: 1759
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Booksellers' catalogs; Navigation
Other titles: Atkinson's epitome of the art of navigation.; Short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator.
Notes: First published: London, 1686.

Signatures: A-2E⁸

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [ii]

Adams & Waters. English maritime boks, 116.