The advancement of the art of navigation in two parts: the first, shewing by a new canon of sines, tangents, and secants, how to resolve all cases of right-lined triangles, onely by looking into the tables, without any calculation. Particularly applied to all the three kinds of sailing: viz. By the plain chart, by Mercaters chart, by a great circle, and to the art of surveying. The second part, shewing several observations, for the better odering of the log-line, and for the more exact and ready measuring, not onely of minutes, but seconds of time, with some new experiments and engines for the more constant finding of a ships way. By Henry Philippes.

People / Organizations

• George Hulock ("printed for")
• Henry Phillippes (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by R. & W. Leybourn for George Hulock, and are to be sold at his Shop, at Magnus Church corner, 1657.

Publication year

1657-1657

ESTC No.

R6366

Grub Street ID

126715

Description

[14], 136 [130], 39, [1] p. ; 4⁰

Note

2d part has special t.p.

Inserted between the first and second parts is possibly a first edition of another work of Phillippes consisting of two parts which was published separately in 1708. The first part: The seaman's canon of triangles, London, 1657. The second part: A brief canon of triangles, London, 1657.