Nautical instruments - Early works to 1800
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The description and use of Donn's improved navigation scale
Donne, Benjamin, 1729-1798.Date: 1800?]- E-books
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The description and use, of a new constructed octant, sextant and quintant . By His Majesty's patent, being an improvement on the Hadley's quadrant. By either of which, altitudes are taken, and angular distances measured to the greatest precision from 0. to 160'. Without a back observation, and with double the space of illumination, or field of view: also a new meth[o]d of adjusting the glasses, and applying the instrument for the purposes of finding the latitude and longitude at sea.. By G. Wright.
Wright, Gabriel.Date: [1779?]- E-books
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The description and use of a new instrument, entitled The mariner's journalet Constructed and sold by Robert Blackburne, teacher of navigation, &c. at No. 75, near Durham-Yard, in the Strand.
Blackburne, Robert, teacher of mathematics at Liverpool.Date: [1768?]- E-books
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The description and use, of a new quadrant, for finding the latitude at sea Invented and made, by Benjamin Cole, mathematical instrument-maker, at the Orrery in Fleetstreet, London, to which are added short and plain instructions, for the use of that most excellent instrument, invented by John Hadley, Esq; with the improvement of an artificial horizon.
Cole, Benjamin, 1695-1766.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- E-books
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L'automate de longitude. Nouveau systéme d'hydrométrie ; par les périodes d'un mouvement nautique, qui marque à un cadran, les lieuës qu'un navire fait dans sa route. Présenté à nos seigneurs les Commissaires de la Grande Bretagne pour l'examen des découvertes sur la longitude. Par Allain Pitot
Pitot, AllainDate: MDCCXVI. [1716]