The mariners magazine, stor'd with these mathematical arts: the rudiments of navigation and geometry. The making and use of divers mathematical instruments. The doctrine of triangles, plain and spherical. The art of navigation, by the plain-chart, mercator's-chart, and the arch of a great circle. The art of surveying, gauging, and measuring. Gunnery and artificial fire-works. The rudiments of astronomy. The art of dialing. Also with tables of logarithms, and tables of the suns declination; of the latitude and longitude, right ascension, and declination of the most notable fixed stars; of the latitude and longitude of places; of meridional parts. Whereunto are annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by Acts of Parliament, relating to the customs, and to navigation. And; a compendium of fortification. By Capt. Samuel Sturmy

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  • The mariners magazine, stor'd with these mathematical arts: the rudiments of navigation and geometry. The making and use of divers mathematical instruments. The doctrine of triangles, plain and spherical. The art of navigation, by the plain-chart, mercator's-chart, and the arch of a great circle. The art of surveying, gauging, and measuring. Gunnery and artificial fire-works. The rudiments of astronomy. The art of dialing. Also with tables of logarithms, and tables of the suns declination; of the latitude and longitude, right ascension, and declination of the most notable fixed stars; of the latitude and longitude of places; of meridional parts. Whereunto are annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by Acts of Parliament, relating to the customs, and to navigation. And; a compendium of fortification. By Capt. Samuel Sturmy
  • Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. The fifth book; Canon triangulorum logarithmicus: or, a table of artificial sines and tangents to every degree and minute of the quadrant; Chiliades decem logarithmorum, or the logarithms of all numbers from an unite to 10000
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Imprint
London: printed by John Playford, for W. Fisher and R. Mount at the Postern-Gate near Tower-Hill; R. Boulter at the Turks-head in Cornhill; J. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; R. Smith, at the Bible in the Piazza under the Exchange; and R. Northcot, next St. Peter's Alley in cornhill, and at the Anchor and Mariner on Fish-street-hill, 1684. The third edition, diligently revised and carefully corrected, by John Colson, teacher of the mathematicks in London.; ..
Publication year
1684
ESTC No.
R184754
Grub Street ID
74166
Description
[28], 195, [2], 173, [1]; [48] p., plates (some folded) : ill. (diagrams) ; 2°.
Note
Title page in red and black

With an engraved frontispiece

Signatures: A-2B]4] 2C]2, 3A-3Y]4; a-m]2

Wing CD-ROM, 1996 fails to include R. Smith in the imprint.