The new American practical navigator: being an epitome of navigation : containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical Almanac, in determining the latitude and the longitude by lunar observations : and keeping a completer reckoning at sea ... the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced. Also, the demonstration of the usual rules of trigonometry : problems in mensuration, surveying, and gauging : dictionary of sea-terms : and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea. With an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars : and rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses or accultations
Publisher
published by E.M. Blunt and Samuel A. Burtus, J. Seymour, printer
Publication Date
Aug. 1817
Edition
1st stereotype (4th) ed.
Language
English
