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

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James Atkinson
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Engelska
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Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill M,DCC,LXXIV. 1774 England, London 458p.,plates 8⁰.
Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, on Tower-Hill M,DCC,LXV. 1765 England, London 448p., 10 plates 8⁰.
Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son, on Tower-Hill M,DCC,LVIII. 1758 England, London 448p., 10 plates 8⁰.