Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art. Containing many useful 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; th azimuth-compass, ring-dial, variation compass; ... 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. The fifth edition. By John Seller, hydrographer to the King

All titles

• Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art. Containing many useful 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; th azimuth-compass, ring-dial, variation compass; ... 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. The fifth edition. By John Seller, hydrographer to the King
• Practical navigation; Introduction to the whole art; Table containing ten chiliads of logarithms; Triangular canon logarithmical

People / Organizations

• Thomas Passinger Sr. ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by the author, at the Hermitage in Wapping; by W. Fisher, at the postern-gate near Tower-Hill; by R. Boulter, at the Turks-Head in Cornhill; by T. Passenger, at the three Bibles on London-Bridg, and R. Smith, at the Bible in Cornhill, 1683.

Publication year

1683

ESTC No.

R203532

Grub Street ID

80624

Description

[10], 350, [148] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (woodcuts, metal cuts) ; 4°.

Note

With an additional title page, engraved

"A table containing ten chiliads of logarithms" has separate dated title page on 3A1. "A triangular canon logarithmical" has separate dated title page; register is continuous.