The mariner's compass rectified: containing tables, shewing the true hours 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 Degrees of Latitude, &c. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. By Andrew Wakely, Math, Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged with many useful additions. By J. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematics

People / Organizations

• Andrew Wakely (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for W. and J. Mount, and T. Page, on Tower-Hill, where you may have all Sorts of Sea-Books, 1750.

Publication year

1750

ESTC No.

T97966

Grub Street ID

317317

Description

272p. ; 8°.

Note

With a half-title

Horizontal chain lines.