| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | 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 observations; and keeping a complete reckoning at sea ... the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira ... To which are added, some general instructions and information to merchants, masters of vessels, and others concerned in navigation, relative to maritime laws and mercantile customs ... Enriched with a number of new tables, original improvements and additions, and a large variety of new and important matter
| | | | Creator: | Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 | | | | Publication: | Printed by E.M. Blunt for C. Bingham, Boston, Newburyport, Mass,1802. | | | | Call #: | VK555 B785 | | | | Extent: | xvi, 17-589, [3] p. incl. tables, diagrs. plates, front (fold. map) 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Navigation | Nautical astronomy | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | 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 observations : and keeping a completer reckoning at sea ... the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the 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 occultations of the fixed stars : and rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses or accultations
| | | | Creator: | Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 | | | | Publication: | published by E.M. Blunt and Samuel A. Burtus, J. Seymour, printer, New-York,Aug. 1817. | | | | Notes: | Includes tables. | | | | Call #: | VK555 B785N | | | | Extent: | xiv, [2], 274, 280, [555]-597 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 1/2 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Navigation | Nautical astronomy | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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