Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art
Subtitle: containing many useful and geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles; plain Mercator, and great-circle sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass, ring-dial, variation-compass; the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal; the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical quadrant, plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and virtues of the loadstone. Useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension; of the stars right-ascension and declination; the latitude and longitude of places; and a table of meridional parts : likewise a new traverse-table, and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea : also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the log. sines, tangents, and secants
By: by John Seller, hydrographer to the king
Edition: The fifth edition
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2272:23
Publisher: Printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author, and John Wingfield
Published: 1683
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Navigation -- Early works to 1800; Navigation -- Tables; Logarithms
Genres: Early works to 1800; Tables
Other titles: Introduction to the whole art; Table containing ten chiliads of logarithms; Triangular canon logarithmical
Notes: Added illustrated t.p

"A table containing ten chiliads of logarithms," and "A triangular canon logarithmical" each have special t.p

Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Wing (2nd ed.) S2483A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1995. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2272:23).