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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, a short, easy and methodical way to become a compleat navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plain and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry, Plain and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental, and Logarithmic; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plain, Mercator's, and Great-Circle-Sailing, Geography. Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plain Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship's Way. A Traverse Table; A Table of Meridional Parts; a Table of 10,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully Corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The whole revis'd, and corrected, with the utmost care, by William Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,XLVII. [1747]- Pictures
The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1739Reference: 38278i- Archives and manuscripts
Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)
Finch, Sir John, 1584-1660Date: 1658-1660Reference: MS.2362- Digital Images
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Zebrafish posterior lateral line development
Leo Valdivia, Dr Steve Wilson- Archives and manuscripts
Le Cordier, Samson
Le Cordier, SamsonDate: c. 1690Reference: MS.3212- Books
Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.Date: 1610- Books
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A complete treatise of practical navigation demonstrated from it's [sic] first principles: with all the necessary tables. To which are added, the useful theorems of mensuration, ... By Archibald Patoun, ...
Patoun, Archibald, 1706-1775.Date: 1759- Books
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The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid.
Reid, William, 1791-1858.Date: 1849- Books
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A system of seamanship, and naval tactics. Extracted from the Encyclopaedia, published by Thomas Dobson. Illustrated with copperplates.
Clerk, John, 1728-1812.Date: 1799- Books
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The seaman's daily assistant being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea; In which are contained, rules shewing how the allowances for Leeway, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made, and to correct the dead-reckoning by an observation, in all cases: and also all the tables that are any ways necessary for the seaman's use in keeping a journal. By Thomas Haselden, late teacher of the mathematics in the Royal Navy.
Haselden, Thomas, -1740.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
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Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.
Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.Reference: 46655i- Digital Images
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Zebrafish sensory neuromasts
Kate Turner, Dr Steve Wilson- Books
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Expériences pratiques de la boussole circulaire : faites a bord des navires de l'état et de la marine marchande / par Émile Marin Duchemin.
Duchemin, Emile Marin.Date: 1876- Pictures
Ship-building: quadrant (top), and telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
Reference: 44516i- Books
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The mariners new kalendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and 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 Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude 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. The Problems of Plain-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 coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: [1748]- Books
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The seaman's daily assistant, being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea; In which are contain'd Rules, Shewing How the Allowances for Lee-Way, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Set of Currents, &c. are to be made, and to Correct the Dead - Reckoning by an Observation, in all Cases: And also all the Tables that are any ways necessary for the Seaman's Use in keeping a Journal. By Thomas Haselden, Late Teacher of the Mathematicks in the Royal-Navy.
Haselden, Thomas, -1740.Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]- Pictures
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Navigation: a sighting compass. Engraving.
Date: 1768Reference: 46686i- Pictures
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Navigation: a gimbal compass and a sextant. Engraving.
Reference: 46659i- Books
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The seaman's daily assistant: being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea; in which are contained, rules, shewing how the allowances for lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made; and to correct the Dead-Reckoning by an Observation in all Cases: And also all the Tables that are any ways necessary for the Seaman's Use in keeping a Journal. By Thomas Haselden, Late Teacher of the Mathematics in the Royal Navy.
Haselden, Thomas, -1740.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator; Containing, practical geometry, plane and spheric, superficial and solid; with its uses in all kinds of mensuration. Trigonometry, plane and spheric, both geometric, instrumental, and logarithmic, with its uses in navigation, viz. In plane, Mercator's, and great circle sailing, geography, astronomy, the projection of the sphere, &c. The Gregorian or new calendar, description and use of the plane-chart, Mercator's-chart, both globes, hemispheres, and divers other instruments. A new form of keeping a sea-reckoning, or account of a ship's way. A traverse table; a table of meridional parts; a table of 10,000 logarithms, and logarithmic sines, tangents and secants, carefully corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior, the whole revised and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, & F.R.S.
Atkinson, James, active 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A discourse of navigation; containing several rules and instructions to be observed in the practice thereof: and shewing the use of two instruments, lately invented, for resolving all triangles and all problems, in sailing, without any operation by arithmetick.
Date: MDCCII. [1702]- Books
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The gentleman's dictionary. In three parts, viz. I. The art of riding the great horse. II. The military art. III. The art of navigation / Each part done alphabetically, from the sixteenth edition of the original French. Published by the Sieur Guillet. With large additions, alterations and improvements, adapted to the customs and actions of the English.
Date: 1705- Books
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The theory of navigation demonstrated: and its rudiments clearly and plainly proved, from the first and most simple principles of the mathematicks. With all the Rules and Tables Useful in the Practice. And A Catalogue of the Right Ascensions, and Distances from the Pole Of some Eminent Fixed Stars. Also A Collection of the Latitudes of several Ports and Cities; with their Longitudes from Her Majesty's Observatory, Deduced from Coelestial Observations. By James Hodgson, F. R. S.
Hodgson, James, 1672-1755.Date: 1706- Books
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The American sailor: a treatise on practical seamanship, with hints and remarks relating thereto. Designed to contribute towards making navigation in general more perfect, and of consequence, less destructive to health, lives and property. By Samuel Buckner.
Buckner, Samuel.Date: [1790]- Pictures
Ship-building: logarithmic equipment and tables. Coloured engraving by Stead, 1813.
Date: 4 September 1813Reference: 44512i