The Mariner's new calendar. : Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical 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 tables of the sun's place, declination, and right ascension: of the right ascention and declination of the principal fixed stars: of the latitude and longtitude 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-staff and nocturnal: necessary problems in plane-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 at coming into the channel: with directions for failing into some principal harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, student in the mathematics. The whole revis'd and adjusted to the new stile, by William Mountaine, F.R.S.

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Author / Creator:Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.
Imprint:London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son, on Tower-Hill, 1758.
Description:136p. : ill. ; 4⁰.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10245258
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Varying Form of Title:Mariners new kalendar
Notes:With a half-title.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
English Short Title Catalog, N34842.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.