Navigation new modell'd: or, a treatise of geometrical trigonometrical arithmetical instrumental and practical navigation. Teaching, How to keep a Reckoning, both in Latitutde 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 Orthographick and Stereographick, Also Current Sailing, with other Pleasant Questions, and how to correct the Longitude by a Solar Observation. The third 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.
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London: printed for W. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill; W. Meadows, at the Angel, near the Fleece Tavern in Cornhill; and Ste. Fitzer, at the Three Bibles in the Minories, MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
- Publication year
- 1736-1736
- ESTC No.
- T171504
- Grub Street ID
- 209123
- Description
- xvi,527,[1]p.,plates : port. ; 8⁰
- Uncontrolled note
- Verify imprint punctuation. Pp. 97, 107, 504, 505, 512 misnumbered 93, 10, 540, 450, 502 respectively