The mariners new kalender : Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube roots. Also rules for finding the prime, epact, moon's age, time of high-water, with tables for the same. Together with exact table of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension. Of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars. Of the latitude and longitude of places. A large table of difference of latitude and departure, for the exact working a traverse. Also, the description and use of the sea-quadrant, fore-staft, and nocturnal. The problems of plain-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms, and by gunter's scale. A tide table. The courses and distances on the coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. and the soundings coming into the channel. With directions for sailing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in the mathematicks.
| Author/creator | Colson, Nathaniel |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for Thomas Page, and William Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1729. |
| Description | 132 pages : illustrations ; 4⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Mariners new kalendar |
| General note | With a half-title. |
| General note | 'A large and useful table' has a separate titlepage. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T216139. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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