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Thoughts on a late proposal for piloting ships at all seasons through Channel Creek , Instead of the Old Passage by the Braces, into Hoogly River.
Date: 1782- E-books
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Navigation new modell'd Or, A treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation. Teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, without tables or instruments, by a new method never yet published: illustrated with practical examples of keeping a journal, and correcting it by an observation; with a new way of finding the variation, and time of high-water at any known port. Together with all necessary tables, and the projection of the sphere orthographic and stereographick. Also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longitude by a solar observation. The fourth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson, author of the London accomptant, trigonometry improv'd, and other mathematical treatises, revised and corrected by the author.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- E-books
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Clark, mayor. A common council holden in the chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Thursday, the 20th day of January, 1785, and in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, &c. ..
Corporation of London (England). Court of Common Council.Date: 1785]- E-books
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The report of Mess. John Grundy, Langley Edwards, and John Smeaton, engineers, concerning the present ruinous state and condition, of the River Witham , and the Navigation thereof, from the city of Lincoln, thro' Boston, to it's outfall into the sea ; And of the Fen Lands on both Sides the said River. Together with proposals and schemes for restoring, Improving, and Preserving the said river and Navigation, And also for effecting the Drainage of the said Fen Lands. To which is annexed a plan, and proper estimates of the Expences in performing the several Works recommended for those Purposes.
Date: [1761?]- Books
L'arte del navegar, in la qval si contengono le regole, dechiarationi, secreti, et auisi, alla bona nauegation necessarij / Composta per l'eccel. dottor m. Pietro da Medina, & tradotta de lingua spagnola in volgar italiano. À beneficio, & vtilità de ciascadun nauigante. [Woodcut].
Pedro de MedinaDate: 1554- E-books
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A rule, order, or bye law, to be observed and kept by the bargemasters, ... concerned in the navigating ... any barge, boat, or vessel, on the rivers Thames and Isis, ... ordered at a general meeting of the Commissioners, ..
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: 1786]- E-books
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An answer to the Worcester letter, dated December, 1785
Date: 1786?]- Books
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Cursus mathematicus, Mathematical sciences : in nine books ... : with the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments, and the doctrine of triangles applied to practice in mensurations of all kinds / by William Leybourn.
William LeybournDate: 1690- E-journals
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Navigation new modelled Or, A treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation; teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, without tables or instruments, by a new method never yet published: illustrated with practical examples of keeping a journal, and correcting it by an observation, with a new way of finding the variation, and time of high-water at any known port. Together with all necessary tables, calculated to the new stile, and the projection of the sphere orthographic and stereographic. Also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longtitude by a solar observation. The ninth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson. Revised and corrected by William Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, and F.R.S.
Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The vvhole art of navigation in five books ... / by Captain Daniel New-House.
Newhouse, DanielDate: 1685- E-books
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Navigation unvail'd; or, A new and complete system of navigation in all its branches . Containing, arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, geography, and astronomy, in a more plain and easy method than any hitherto published, and more adapted to beginners. Sailing by the plain, and Mercator's or Wright's charts explained from the first principles, and fully illustrated in a variety of useful examples. The theory of the tides, currents, variation of the compass, leeway, &c. particularly considered; and the difficulties in reckoning, which proceed from them, fully explained. A complete set of all the tables useful in navigation, with their construction and use at large. The description and use of the instruments commonly used, and some new ones of the author's own invention. To which is added, a new way of keeping a reckoning on the principles of Mercator's or Wright's sailing, as easily as by the common erroneous method of plain sailing. The whole calculated for practice, and the examples such as occur at sea, in a manner quite different from other systems; being freed from the many superfluities and perplexities which those who have wrote on this subject, have generally made use of, and abounding with variety of rules which are absolutely necessary, and have never before been treated of: performed with the greatest exactness, and approved of by the most eminent mathematicians, of the age. By Edward Hauxley, teacher of the mathematicks.
Hauxley, Edward.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- E-books
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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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A bill for making the river Weaver navigable, from Frodsham-Bridge to Northwich, in the county of Chester
Parliament of the United KingdomDate: 1720]- Books
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The line of proportion or numbers, commonly called Gunter's line made easie : by the which may be measured all manner of superficies and solids as boards, glass, pavement, timber, stone, &c. : also, how to perform the same by a line of equal parts, drawn from the centre of a two-foot rule : whereunto is added, The use of the line of proportion improved : whereby all manner of superficies and solids may both exactly and speedily be measured, without the help of pen or compasses, by inspection, looking only upon the ruler / by William Leybourn.
William LeybournDate: 1684- Books
A proposal to determine our longitude / By Jane Squire.
Jane SquireDate: 1743- E-books
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The daily use of nautical sciences, in a ship at sea Particularly, in finding and keeping the latitude and longitude, during a voyage. By Samuel Dunn, teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London.
Dunn, Samuel, d. 1794.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- E-books
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An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the twelfth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for providing a publick reward for such persons as shall discover the longitude at sea, with regard to the making experiments of proposals made for discovering the longitude
Great BritainDate: 1765- E-books
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Navigation improved In two books. Book I. Containing an exact description of the fluid quadrant for the latitude; or, Quadrants reduc'd to the utmost degree of portableness: whereby quadrants of a small radius are contriv'd to be equally useful, and as exact as the largest quadrant now in use. By which travellers and others, with these protable instruments, may be able to take any observations, on land or sea, to greater exactness than with the largest quadrant yet invented. Design'd for the further improvement of astronomy, and the correction of table belonging thereto. Of principal use at sea, in finding the latitude of places, when the horizon is any way obscured, to the same exactness as in the clearest weather; and also by the fix'd stars, with the same certainty as by the sun: whereby there will be more frequent opportunities for finding the latitude, when no other instrument can be of service. Book II. An essay on the discovery of the longitude, by a new invention of an everlasting Horometer. Founded on the most unerring principles of nature. With copper plates of the instuments, &c. By Captain Jacob Rowe.
Rowe, JacobDate: 1725- E-books
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The extensive advantages of navigation: a sermon, preached in the parish-church of St. Nicholas, in Deptford, on Monday the first of June, 1795. ... By the Rev. Samuel Glasse, ..
Glasse, Samuel, 1735-1812.Date: 1795]- E-books
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An essay on the improvement of the art of navigation; or, A new invented method for finding the longitude at sea mechanically . By the help of a simple theorem founded in true principles of spherical geometry. By Mathew St. Leger.
St. Leger, Mathew.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- E-books
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A letter from Hugh Boyd, Esq; of Ballycastle, to a member of Parliament, on the late scarcity of coals in the city of Dublin
Boyd, Hugh, Esq., of Ballycastle.Date: Printed in the Year, 1749-50 [i.e. 1750]- Books
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The vvhole art of navigation in five books ... / by Captain Daniel New-House.
Newhouse, DanielDate: 1686- E-books
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Reports to the Lords Commissioners of Police, relative to the navigation of the Rivers Forth, Guide, and Devon. M.DCC.LXXIII
Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- E-books
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A treatise on practical navigation and seamanship , with Remarks, Observations, and Directions for managing and conducting a Ship in all kinds of Weather, either under Sail or at Anchor, with many useful Hints and Remarks by way of Improvement to Navigation and to Navigators, in every Occurrence that can happen to a Ship at Sea or at Anchor. And also, A full and clear Description of the English Channel, with distinct and clear Directions for sailing down the Channel from the Downs westward; also particular Directions for a Ship coming from the Ocean, and entering the English Channel, with Directions for sailing up the same to the Downs, both in fair and foul Weather, with whatever is necessary for the Seaman to know by way of Improvement. To make ships, and the management of them, and also navigation in general more perfect, and Consequently less dangerous and destructive to Men's Lives and Property: together With the Method the Author advised, and which was adopted in Scenes of the greatest Distress at Sea, in a violent Storm. By William Nichelson, Author of his Voyage to the East-Indies, in His Majesty's Ship Elizabeth, Published in the Year 1765. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Remarks on various Subjects, and on the particular Situation of the Centre of Gravity in a Ship, &c. &c.
Nichelson, WilliamDate: [1796]- E-books
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Notwithstanding the many years that the Europeans have navigated to India, there is not, in any language, what may be termed a tolerable set of charts for all parts of this very important navigation: M. d'Apres has done much, but much still remains to be done. ..
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1779]