The Sea-man's Practice: Containing a Fundamental Problem in Navigation, Experimentally Verified: Namely, Touching the Compass of the Earth and Sea, and the Quantity of a Degree in Our English Measures. Also an Exact Method Or Form of Keeping a Reckoning Or Journal at Sea in Any Kind Or Manner of Sailing. With Certain Tables and Other Rules Used in Navigation. As Also the Plotting and Surveying of Places: the Latitude of the Principal Places in England: the Finding of the Currents at Sea, and what Allowance is to be Given in Respect of Them. By Richard Norwood, Reader of the MathematicksRichard Mount, and are to be sold at his shop at the Postern on Towerhill, 1699 - Navigation - 129 pages |
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