The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots: also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension: of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longitude of places: a large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant fore-staff and nocturnal: necessary problems in plane-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by Gunter's scale: a tide table: the courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. and the soundings at coming into the Channel: with directions for sailing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in mathematics. The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the new stile, by William Moun

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  • The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots: also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension: of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longitude of places: a large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant fore-staff and nocturnal: necessary problems in plane-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by Gunter's scale: a tide table: the courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. and the soundings at coming into the Channel: with directions for sailing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in mathematics. The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the new stile, by William Moun
  • Mariners new kalendar
  • Mariner's new calendar
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Imprint
London: printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, 1770.
Added name
Mountaine, William, -1779.
Publication year
1770
ESTC No.
N70738
Grub Street ID
51204
Description
136 p. : ill. ; 4°.
Note
Below imprint: Where you may have all sorts of mathematical books.