Cawood, Francis
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An essay: or, scheme: towards establishing and improving the fishery, and other manuctures of Great-Britain . Humbly offered and dedicated to the North-Sea Company; and all true lovers of their Country, Nature, and Art. What goods and merchandize are proper for maritime traffick, whence they are to be bad, and what Gain and Profit they will produce to the said Company, for whose Use this small Treatise is Publish'd. The which will produce a far greater Treasure to the Crown, and this united Kingdom, than both the Indies. By Francis Cawood, of London Merchant, subscribed to in the Years, 1713, 1716, and 1720, now full and still Subsisting.
Cawood, FrancisDate: 1721- E-books
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Navigation compleated Being a new method never before attain'd to by any. Whereby the true longitude of any place in the world may be found, whether differing in longitude only, or both in longitude and latitude from any place in the habitable world, by new invented mathematical instruments, viz. The complete navigator, or universal chart. The accute astronomer, compass, admitting of no variation in any latitude, &c. distance-reel and discoverer. By the uses whereof, the certainty of the easting and westing of the globe may be discovered as exactly as the northing and southing already are, and to give at any altitude (having the suns declination, the true latitude, longitude, hour and azimuth all at once by ocular inspection, thereby making the sea barring winds, &c. as direct and plain a path for ships to sail, as the land for travelling. By Francis Cawood, London, student in the mathematicks.
Cawood, FrancisDate: MDCCX. [1710]- E-books
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An essay: or, Scheme Towards establishing and improving the fishery and other manufactures of Great-Britain. Humbly offered and dedicated to the North-Sea company; and all true lovers of their country, nature, and art. What goods and merchandize are proper for maritime traffick, whence they are to be had, and what gain and profit they will produce to the said company, for whose use this small trestise is publish'd. The which will produce a far greater treasure to the crown, and this United Kingdom, than both the Indies. By Francis cawood, of London merchant, begun, settled, and practised, Anno Dom. 1713.
Cawood, FrancisDate: 1713