Navigation new modelled : Or, Treatise of geometrical, trigonometrical, arithmetical, instrumental, and practical navigation; teaching how to keep a reckoning, both in latitude and longitude, without tables or instruments, by a new method never yet published: illustrated with practical examples of keeping a journal, and correcting it by an observation; with a new way of finding the variation, and time of high-water at any known port. Together with all necessary tables, calculated to the new stile, and the projection of the sphere orthographick and stereographick. Also current sailing, with other pleasant questions, and how to correct the longitude by a solar observation. The eighth edition, with the addition of spherical trigonometry, and astronomy. By Henry Wilson.

Author/creator Wilson, Henry
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son on Tower-Hill, M.DCC.LXI. [1761]
Descriptionxvi, 527, 1 unnumbered page ; 8⁰.
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Variant title Navigation new modell'd
General noteReproduction of original from Library of Congress.
References English Short Title Catalog, N41685.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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