The New American Practical Navigator being an Epitome of Navigation; Containing all the Tables necessary to be used with the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observation, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea; Illustrated by Proper Rules and Examples: The Whole Exemplified in a Journal kept from Boston to Madeira, in which allthe Rules of Navigation are Introduced: Also, the Demonstration of the Usual Rules of Trigonometry; Problems in Mensuration, Surveying, and Gauging, Dictionary of Sea Terms: and the Manner of Performing the most Useful Evolutions at sea: With an Appendix, containing Methods of Calculating Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and Occulations of the Fixed Stars; Rules for Finding the Longitude of a Place by Observations of Eclipses, Occultations, and Transits of the Moon´s Limb over the Meridian; Also a new Method for Finding the Latitude by two Altitudes
Inbunden bok. New York, E. & G. W. Blunt. Tjugosjunde uppl. 1857. (2),8,XX,319,460,3 sidor.
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