The sea-man's practice, containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compass of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measures. Also, an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning at sea in any kind or manner of sailing. With certain tables and other rules used in navigation: as also the plotting and surveying of places: the latitude of the principal places in England: the finding of currents at sea, and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks
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- The sea-man's practice, containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compass of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measures. Also, an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning at sea in any kind or manner of sailing. With certain tables and other rules used in navigation: as also the plotting and surveying of places: the latitude of the principal places in England: the finding of currents at sea, and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks
- Seamans practice; Table for the difference of latitude, and departure from the meridian
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London: printed by A[nne]. Godbid and J[ohn]. Playford, for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate, near Tower-Hill, T[homas]. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, R[obert]. Boulter, at the Turks-Head, and R[alph]. Smith, at the Bible in Cornhill, 1682.
The fifteenth edition.; ..
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- 1682
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- R181097
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- 71864
- Description
- [6], 137, [1] p. : ill., tables, diagrams, volvelle ; 4°.
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- Printers' and publishers' names from Wing (CD-ROM edition)
Divisional title page on p. 57: A table for the difference of latitude, and departure from the meridian
Signatures: A-S]4.
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- Wing (CD-ROM edition) has title: The seamans practice