The Seaman's Tutor: Explaining Geometry, Cosmography, and Trigonometry: With Requisite Tables of Longitude and Latitude of Sea-ports, Traverse Tables, Tables of Easting and Westing, Meridian Miles, Declinations, Amplitude, Refractions, Use of the Compass, Kalendar, Measure of the Earth's Globe, Use of Instruments and Charts, Difference of Sailing, Estimation of a Ship's Way by the Log and Log-line, Currents,&c. Compiled for the Use of the Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital London, His Majesty Charles II His Royal FoundationR. Mount, at his shop at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1692 - 258 pages |
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