The mariners-compass rectified. Containing tables shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with: and tables of amplitude. All which tables are calculated from the equinoctial to 60 deg. of latitude. Hereunto is added an appendix, containing the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. With a table of the latitude and longitude of places: composed after a new order. By Andrew Wakely, math

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  • The mariners-compass rectified. Containing tables shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with: and tables of amplitude. All which tables are calculated from the equinoctial to 60 deg. of latitude. Hereunto is added an appendix, containing the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. With a table of the latitude and longitude of places: composed after a new order. By Andrew Wakely, math
  • Mariner's compass rectified
  • Astronomical tables of semidiurnal and seminocturnal arches.; Astronomical tables shewing the point of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with.; Exact tables of the sun's declination.; Primum mobile: or, Astronomical tables.
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Imprint
London: printed for Richard Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill; and Thomas Passenger on London-Bridg, 1694. Carefully corrected, altered, and very much enlarged, with many useful additions. By Ja. Atkinson, teacher of the mathematicks.; ..
Added name
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.
Publication year
1694
ESTC No.
R27117
Grub Street ID
110321
Description
viii, 315, [3] p. 8°.
Note
'Exact tables of the sun's declination' and 'Primum mobile: or, Astronomical tables' have separate dated title pages (B1r and B8r respectively) with imprint: London, Printed by J.D. 1691; 'Astronomical tables of semidiurnal and seminocturnal arches' and 'Astronomical tables shewing the point of the compass that the sun and stars rise and set with' have separate dated title pages (G7r and I2r respectively) with imprint: London, Printed by J.D. 1692; pagination and register are continuous

With an advertisement on A1v and three final pages of advertisements

Signatures: A]4] B-V]8] X]8(-X8)

F4 missigned F3.
Uncontrolled note
Catalogued from a copy at the British Library; verify presence and nature of final leaf, not present in L copy