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Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].
Edward WrightDate: 1610
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Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1771 et 1772, en diverses parties de l'Europe, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique; pour vérifier l'utilité de plusieurs méthodes et instrumens, servant à déterminer la latitude et la longitude tant du vaisseau que des côtes, isles & écueils qu'on reconnoît: suivi de recherches pour rectifier les cartes hydrographiques / Par M.rs de Verdun de al Crenne ... le chevalier de Borda ... et Pingré.
Jean-René de Verdun de la CrenneDate: 1778- E-books
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The mariners new kalendar Containing the principles of arithmetic and 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. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks.
Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.Date: [1748]- Books
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Urania practica, or, Practical astronomy : in VI parts ... / by Vincent Wing and Will. Leybourn.
Vincent WingDate: 1649
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Della sfera armillare e dell'uso di essa nella astronomia nautica e gnomonica. Opera / di Alberto Pappiani.
Alberto PappianiDate: 1745