Trigonometrie. Or, the doctrine of triangles: divided into two books. The first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles: the second of spherical ... Both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithms ... Whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of sea-men) a treatise of the application thereof in the three principal kinds of sailing. With exact tables of the suns declination ... and tables of the right ascension and declination of some eminent fixed stars ... Also other necessary tables used in navigation / [Richard Norwood].

  • Norwood, Richard, 1590?-1675.
Date:
1661
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Credit: Trigonometrie. Or, the doctrine of triangles: divided into two books. The first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles: the second of spherical ... Both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithms ... Whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of sea-men) a treatise of the application thereof in the three principal kinds of sailing. With exact tables of the suns declination ... and tables of the right ascension and declination of some eminent fixed stars ... Also other necessary tables used in navigation / [Richard Norwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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