The mariners new kalendar. : 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 table for the same. Together with exact tables 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, forestaff and nocturnal. The problems of plain-sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms and by Gunter's scale. A rutter for the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, France &c. And the soundings coming into the channel. With directions for sailing into some principal harbours / by Nathaniel Colson, student in mathematicks.
| Author/creator | Colson, Nathaniel |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed by J.D. for Richard Mount at the antient [sic] shop at the Postern on Tower-Hill where you may have all sorts of mathematical and sea-books, 1697. |
| Description | [1], 152 p. : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240883310 |
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| Other title | Large and very useful table of difference of latitude & departure |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | "A large and very useful table of difference of latitude & departure ..." has separate t.p. with continuous pagination and register. |
| General note | Advertisement: "Mathematical and sea-books, printed for Richard Mount" --Leaf proceding t.p. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in: New York Public Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) C5421A |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2951:29) |
| Stock number | CL0037000132 ProQuest. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |