Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts. Containing 1. New ways of keeping of a reckoning, or platting of a traverse, both upon the plain and mercators chart, without drawing any lines therein, with new ways for measuring of the course and distance in each chart. 2. New rules for estimating the ships way through currents, and for correcting the dead reckoning. 3. The refutation of divers errors, and of the plain chart, and how to remove the error committed thereby, with the demonstration of Mercators chart from proportion, and how to supply the meridian-line of it geometrically, albeit there is added to the book a print thereof from a brass-plate to go alone, or with the book; as also a table thereof made to every other centesm. 4. A new easie method of calculation for great circle-sayling, with new projection

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  • Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts. Containing 1. New ways of keeping of a reckoning, or platting of a traverse, both upon the plain and mercators chart, without drawing any lines therein, with new ways for measuring of the course and distance in each chart. 2. New rules for estimating the ships way through currents, and for correcting the dead reckoning. 3. The refutation of divers errors, and of the plain chart, and how to remove the error committed thereby, with the demonstration of Mercators chart from proportion, and how to supply the meridian-line of it geometrically, albeit there is added to the book a print thereof from a brass-plate to go alone, or with the book; as also a table thereof made to every other centesm. 4. A new easie method of calculation for great circle-sayling, with new projection
  • Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd Treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts Mariners plain scale new plain'd
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Imprint
London: printed by Tho. Johnson for Francis Cossinet, and are to be sold at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street, as also by Henry Sutton mathematical instrument-maker in Thread needle street, behinde the Exchange, 1659.
Publication year
1659-1659
ESTC No.
R207824
Grub Street ID
84151
Description
[10], 54 [i.e. 56], [2], 118 [i.e. 128], [4], 67, [5], 36 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (woodcuts; metal cuts) ; 4⁰
Note
First sequence p. 56 misnumbered 54; second sequence p. 128 misnumbered 118.

Parts 1, 2, and 3 of "The mariners plain scale new plain'd" each have separate dated title page, pagination, and register.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 31".
Uncontrolled note
DFo and CSmH have the t.p. of "Mariners plain scale new plain'd ..." before the t.p. of "Navigation by the mariners plain scale ..." and conjugate with it, rather than bound preceding the second sequence as in L copy. The L copy is reflected in the pagination statement