| Author | Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
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| 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; illustrated by proper rules and examples: The whole exemplified in a journal kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced ... / by Nathaniel Bowditch. [Title continues in note]
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| Edition | 13th new stereotype ed. |
| Published | New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ..., 1842.
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| Description | xv, [1], 317, 447, 4 p., 13 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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| General Note | The plates are engraved by William Hooker.
Four pages at end contain publisher's advertisement.
Title continued: ...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; rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses, occulations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding
the latitude by two altitudes.
"Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry."
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| Subjects | Nautical astronomy.
Navigation.
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| Other Authors | Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.
Hooker, William.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: VK 555 B785 N5
mq32931: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 25809] |
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