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Practical navigation; or an introduction to the whole art, Containing many useful Geometrical Definitions and Problems; The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles; Plain Mercator, and Great-Circle Sailing; Sundry useful Problems in Astronomy; The Use of Instruments; The Azimuth-Compass and Ring-Dial. The Fore Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plian Scale, Gunter's Scale, Plain-Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, and Virtues of the Loadstone. Useful Tables of the Moon's Age, of the Tides, of the Sun's Place, Declination, and Right Ascension; of the Stars Right Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Meridional Parts; Likewise a new Traverse-Table, and the Use thereof in keeping a Reckoning at Sea: Also a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm Sines, Tangents, and Secants, All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.
printed for T. Page, W. and F. Mount, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill
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