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Navigation; or, the art of sailing upon the sea. Containing a demonstration of the fundamental principles of this art. Together with all the practical rules of computing a ship's way, Both BY Plain Sailing, Mercator, and Middle Latitude, Founded upon the foregoing Principles. With many other useful Things hereto belonging. To which are added, several necessary tables.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The daily use of nautical sciences, in a ship at sea; Particularly, in finding and keeping the latitude and longitude, during a voyage. By Samuel Dunn, teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The nature and use of Hadley's quadrant, with a preface containing the theory, on which that noble and useful instrument is founded. And a description of the nonius.
Date: 1790?]- 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: [1749]- Books
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Descriptio astrolabii nautici novi a Johanne Hadley, Armig. V. P. R. S. inventi, apti ad observationes syderum altitudinis, vel Angulorum quorumcunque. Annexa sunt praecepta, quibus Observationes illae facilius certiusque a Nautis peragi possint.
Hadley, George, 1685-1768.Date: 1734?]- Books
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Sailing directions for the island of Jamaica and St. Domingue, or Hispaniola, and the windward passages, to be used with the charts and plans that are published from surveys and observations, Made by Order of Philip Affleck, Esq. Rear Admiral of the White, and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Jamaica, &c. &c. In part of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, and part of 1792. By John Leard, and Assistants.
Leard, John, marine surveyor.Date: [1792]- Books
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The line of proportion or numbers, commonly called Gunter's line made easie : by the which may be measured all manner of superficies and solids as boards, glass, pavement, timber, stone, &c. : also, how to perform the same by a line of equal parts, drawn from the centre of a two-foot rule : whereunto is added, The use of the line of proportion improved : whereby all manner of superficies and solids may both exactly and speedily be measured, without the help of pen or compasses, by inspection, looking only upon the ruler / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1684- Books
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Observations on the present state of the art of navigation, with a short account of the nature and regulations of a society now forming for its effectual improvement. By James Fergusson.
Fergusson, James, active 18th century.Date: 1787- Books
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An advertisement, Necessary to be Observed in the Navigation Up and Down the Channel of England. Communicated by a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.Date: 1701- Books
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A treatise on practical navigation and seamanship, with Remarks, Observations, and Directions for managing and conducting a Ship in all kinds of Weather, either under Sail or at Anchor, with many useful Hints and Remarks by way of Improvement to Navigation and to Navigators, in every Occurrence that can happen to a Ship at Sea or at Anchor. And also, A full and clear Description of the English Channel, with distinct and clear Directions for sailing down the Channel from the Downs westward; also particular Directions for a Ship coming from the Ocean, and entering the English Channel, with Directions for sailing up the same to the Downs, both in fair and foul Weather, with whatever is necessary for the Seaman to know by way of Improvement. To make ships, and the management of them, and also navigation in general more perfect, and Consequently less dangerous and destructive to Men's Lives and Property: together With the Method the Author advised, and which was adopted in Scenes of the greatest Distress at Sea, in a violent Storm. By William Nichelson, Author of his Voyage to the East-Indies, in His Majesty's Ship Elizabeth, Published in the Year 1765. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Remarks on various Subjects, and on the particular Situation of the Centre of Gravity in a Ship, &c. &c.
Nichelson, William.Date: [1796]- Books
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The new practical navigator; being an epitome of navigation, rendered easy to any common capacity: containing all the requisite tables for determining the latitude and longitude, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: Illustrated by Proper Rules and Examples, the Whole Exemplified in a Journal Kept from England to the Island of Teneriffe. So that this Book, and the Nautical Almanac, will be Found Fully Sufficient for the Seaman and Teacher's Use. Constructed on a New Plan. By John Hamilton Moore, Teacpcr of Navigation, Hydrographer and Chart-Seller to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: 1793- Books
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Compendium artis nauticæ. Being the daily practice of the whole art of navigation; whereby all the problems of navigation and astronomy practicable at sea, are easily, expeditiously and exactly performed, only by tabular inspection: without The Operation of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; each Problem being amply explained, and rendered intelligible to the meanest Capacity; so as to enable them to keep an Account of the Ships Way, both by Plain and Mercator's-Sailing: All being wholly New, and exactly agreeing with the nicest Calculation, and may readily be applied to most Parts of Practical Mathematicks. By John Collier, Formerly Teacher of the Mathematicks to the Gentlemen Voluntiers in the Royal Navy.
Collier, John, teacher of Mathematics.Date: 1729- Books
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Some new inquiries tending to the improvement of navigation. By J. A. Genevois, Minister in the Canton of Bern.
Genevois, Jean Alexandre.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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An answer to the Worcester letter, dated December, 1785.
Date: 1786?]- Books
A proposal to determine our longitude / By Jane Squire.
Squire, Jane, 1671?-1743.Date: 1743- Books
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The voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the original journal preserved by Arrian, And Illustrated BY Authorities Ancient And Modern; containing an account of the first navigation attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean. By William Vincent, D.D. To which are added three dissertations: Two, on the Acronychal Rising of the Pleiades, By the Right Reverend Dr. Samuel Horsley, Lord Bishop of Rochester; And by Mr. William Wales, Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital: And One by Mr. DE LA Rochette, On the First Meridian of Ptolemy.
Arrian.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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A treatise on ship-building and navigation. In three parts wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector, for readily laying down and delineating ships, whether of similar or dissimilar forms. Also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts, of difference of latitude and departure, of logarithms, and of artificial sines, tangents, and secants. With an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, mem. of the R. Acad. of Sciences, fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Surveyor General of the French marine. To which is now added a supplement. Containing a translation of what M. Bouguer, another French author has written on that subject: and M. Duhamel's method of finding the center of gravity, with some remarks by the author. The whole illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates. By Mungo Murray.
Murray, Mungo, -1770.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The description and use, of a new quadrant, for finding the latitude at sea: Invented and made, by Benjamin Cole, mathematical instrument-maker, at the Orrery in Fleetstreet, London, to which are added short and plain instructions, for the use of that most excellent instrument, invented by John Hadley, Esq; with the improvement of an artificial horizon.
Cole, Benjamin, 1695-1766.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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An essay on the improvement of the art of navigation; or, A new invented method for finding the longitude at sea mechanically. By the help of a simple theorem founded in true principles of spherical geometry. By Mathew St. Leger.
St. Leger, Mathew.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The report of John Grundy, Esq; engineer, for making the River Swale to Moreton Bridge and Bedale Brook navigable; with an estimate of the expences thereof.
Grundy, John.Date: 1767]- Books
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A bill for making the river Neene alias Nine, running from Northampton to Peterborough, navigable.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1714]- Books
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The vvhole art of navigation in five books ... / by Captain Daniel New-House.
Newhouse, DanielDate: 1686- Books
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Sir, You are desired to meet the committee for improving the navigation of the River Thames, and for preventing encroachments on the said river, on board the navigation barge, at Staines, on Saturday, the 7th day of July 1798, at eight o'clock in the morning, and proceed from thence down the river at nine precisely, ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed for Improving and Completing the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis.Date: [1798]- Books
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Supplement to the treatise on ship-building. Containing extracts translated from M. Bouguer's Traité du navire. Together with M. Duhamel's method of finding the centre of gravity. And some Occasional remarks. Also An Account of several Experiments, made to ascertain the Form of a Solid that will move with the greatest Velocity through the Water. Likewise A Method to determine the Thickness of the Plank, in the Direction of the Planes of the Timbers. With the Proportions for Masts, Yards, Caps, &c. By Mungo Murray.
Bouguer, M. (Pierre), 1698-1758.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Objections of the land owners in the county of Warwick, through or near whose properties the intended navigation, through the said county, to the city of Oxford, is proposed to go.
Date: 1769?]