The sea-mans practice : contayning a fundamentall probleme in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compasse of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measures. Also an exact method or forme of keeping a reckoning at sea, in any kinde or manner of sayling. With certayne tables and other rules usefull in navigation, as also in the plotting and surveying of places. The latitude of the principall places in England. The finding of currents at sea; and what allowance is to bee given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks.
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| Language: | English |
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Printed [by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet] for George Hurlock, and are to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus Corner,
1637.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Item Description: | Printers' names from STC. Includes separate title page, reading: A table for the difference of latitude, and departure from the meridian. Pages 29-30 missing in number only; 95-117 repeated in number only. Considerable print show-through. Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([12], 140 [i.e. 160] p. : tables) |
