THE MARINER'S NEW CALENDAR. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots: also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension: of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longitude of places: a large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staff and nocturnal: necessary problems in plane-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by Gunter's scale: a tide table: the courses and distances on the coast

COLSON, Nathaniel

Published by Printed Messrs. Mount and Page on Tower Hill, London, 1784

About this Item

20 cm. [3], 4-136pp. Tables and in text illustrations. Spine lacking and some leather missing from boards, old pencil notations on front and rear endpapers, lower margins of several leaves eroded, not affecting text.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE MARINER'S NEW CALENDAR. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots: also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension: of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longitude of places: a large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the ...
• Publisher: Printed Messrs. Mount and Page on Tower Hill, London
• Publication Date: 1784
• Binding: Hardcover