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The Navigator's Assistant: Containing the Theory and Practice of Navigation, With All the Tables Requisite for Determining a Ship's Place at Sea (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

 
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a comprehensive guide to mathematics and navigation, offering insights into fundamental concepts and practical applications. The author delves into decimal arithmetic, exploring its principles and demonstrating its use in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Moving beyond basic calculations, the text explores proportionality, geometric series, and the invention and use of logarithms, providing readers with tools to simplify complex mathematical operations. Furthermore, the book delves into geometry, introducing essential definitions and theorems related to angles, triangles, circles, and parallel lines. It presents geometrical problems and their solutions, enabling readers to apply theoretical knowledge to practical scenarios. Trigonometry is also explored, with explanations of sine, cosine, tangent, and secant, and their applications in measuring angles and distances. The inclusion of Gunter's scale, a navigational tool used by mariners, demonstrates the practical application of mathematical principles in navigation. By elucidating the relationship between mathematics and navigation, the author underscores the significance of mathematical knowledge in understanding and navigating the physical world. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9780282750060_0

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