An epitome of navigation : containing the doctrin of plain & spherical triangles, and their use and application in plain sailing, Mercator's sailing, and great circle sailing ... together with tables of the sun and stars right ascension and declination, of the latitude and longitude of places ... and other things ... useful in the art of navigation ... and the logarithm, sines and tangents ...

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An epitome of navigation : containing the doctrin of plain & spherical triangles, and their use and application in plain sailing, Mercator's sailing, and great circle sailing ... together with tables of the sun and stars right ascension and declination, of the latitude and longitude of places ... and other things ... useful in the art of navigation ... and the logarithm, sines and tangents ...

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Title: An epitome of navigation : containing the doctrin of plain & spherical triangles, and their use and application in plain sailing, Mercator's sailing, and great circle sailing ... together with tables of the sun and stars right ascension and declination, of the latitude and longitude of places ... and other things ... useful in the art of navigation ... and the logarithm, sines and tangents ...
Alternative Title: A triangular canon logarithmical
Several necessary tables appertaining to navigation
Creator: Fisher, William, fl. 1677-1704
Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636
Published / Created: 1680
Publication Place: London
Publisher: W. Fisher [etc.]
Extent: 2 p.l., 57, [1], [166] p. : incl. tables. illus. (incl. diagrs.), pl. ; 15 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Uyr54 680g

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Genre: Diagrams
Marginalia
Woodcuts
Subject (Topic): Navigation--Early works to 1800

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 1264193
Object ID (OID): 2067209