Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems : the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, plain mercator, great-circle sailing : sundry useful problems in astronomy " the use of instruments : the Azimuth-compass and ring-dial, the fore-staff, quadrant and nocturnal : the plain scale, Gunter's scale, plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, and virtues of the loadstone : useful tables of the Moon's age, of the tides, of the Sun's place, declination, and right-ascension : the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of miridional parts : likewise a new traverse-table and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea : also, a table of 10,000 logarithms and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants

Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems : the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, plain mercator, great-circle sailing : sundry useful problems in astronomy " the use of instruments : the Azimuth-compass and ring-dial, the fore-staff, quadrant and nocturnal : the plain scale, Gunter's scale, plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, and virtues of the loadstone : useful tables of the Moon's age, of the tides, of the Sun's place, declination, and right-ascension : the latitude and longitude of places, and a table of miridional parts : likewise a new traverse-table and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea : also, a table of 10,000 logarithms and of the logarithm sines, tangents, and secants / by John Seller.

Author/creator	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698
Other author/creator	Colson, John, fl. 1671-1709.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	London : Printed for R. and W. Mount and T. Page, 1718.
Description	[5], 264, [128] p., 6 leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., map, charts.
Supplemental Content	Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subject(s)	Navigation--Early works to 1800. Navigation--Tables --Early works to 1800.

Portion of title	Introduction to the whole art
Series	Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local note	Library's copy imperfect: half-title marked up in ms; some bleed-through of text.
Local note	Library's copy imperfect: half-title marked up in ms; some bleed-through of text.
Local note	Library's copy imperfect: half-title marked up in ms; some bleed-through of text.
General note	Added, engr. t.-p.
General note	"Very much enlarged by Mr. John Colson, deceas'd." Cf."To the mariners of Great Britain and Ireland," signed R. Mount.
General note	Sabin no. 79030.
References	RLIN, CTRG04-B526
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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