Navigation new modell'd: Or, A treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation. Teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, without tables or instruments, by a new method never yet published: illustrated with practical examples of keeping a journal, and correcting it by an observation; with a new way of finding the variation, and time of high-water at any known port. Together with all necessary tables, and the projection of the sphere orthographic and stereographick. Also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longitude by a solar observation. The fourth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson, author of the London accomptant, trigonometry improv'd, and other mathematical treatises, revised and corrected by the author

People / Organizations

• Henry Wilson (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for W. Mount and T. Page on Tower-Hill; and W. Meadows, at the Angel, near the Fleece-Tavern in Cornbill, MDCCXLI. [1741]

Publication year

1741

ESTC No.

T171500

Grub Street ID

209120

Description

xvi,527,[1]p.,plates : port. ; 8°.

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