Navigation made easy and familiar to the most common capacity: or the young sailor's sure guide, and scholar's best instructor in the art of navigation. Comprehending every modern Improvement of real Utility, and divested of all extraneous Matter, not immediately relating to the Subject, by Way of Dialogue. In four books. Book I. Contains the Nature and Use of Logarithms, Geometry, and Plane Trigonometry, both right angled and oblique. II. Explains Terms in Sailing, with the Cases in Plane Sailing, also Traverse Sailing, Parallel and Middle Latitude, Mereator's, Oblique, and Current Sailing, and turning to Windward. III. Of he Requisites for Dead Reckoning, discovering Currents, High Water, Tides, and Trade Winds, &c. and the Variation of the Compass, Meridian, and double Altitudes of the Sun for correcting Latitude both by natural Sines and Logarithms, the Moon's Distance from the Sun or known fixed Stars for determining the Longitude, with a Method of finding the Longitude by a good commo

People / Organizations

• John Malham (Author)
• Stanley Crowder ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for S. Crowder, in Pater-Noster Row, and B. C. Collins, in Salisbury, M,DCC,XC. [1790]

Publication year

1790

ESTC No.

T66532

Grub Street ID

291282

Description

xi,[1],480p. : ill. ; 12°.