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 complete reckoning at sea; illustrated by proper rules and examples: 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; rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses, occultations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes

Författare
United States Nathaniel Bowditch
(By Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., Fellow of the royal societies of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; of the Astronomical Society in London; of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia; of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York; corresponding member of the royal societies of Berlin, Palermo, &c., Spine title: American practical navigator., "The copyright of The new American practical navigator, by the late Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch, having become the property of the government, under the provisions of section 2 of 'An act to establish a hydrographic office in the Navy Department," approved June 21, 1866, the present edition of this work is published by the Bureau of Navigation. Future changes in The new American practical navigator, with a view to its improvement in certain respects, are contemplated; but a new edition having been called for to supply the immediate demands of navigators, the work is now printed from the original stereotype plates as used in the last edition, (1867,) ... Bureau of Navigation, August 1, 1868"--Notice, verso of title page., Last page blank.)
Genre
Leather bindings (Binding), Ej skönlitteratur, Relief prints., Intaglio prints.
Språk
Engelska
Förlag År Ort Om boken ISBN
Government Printing Office. 1874 District of Columbia, Washington D.C. [2], 9, iv-xix, [1], 290, 516 sidor., XIV leaves of plates (1 folded) ill., maps, diagrs. 24 cm.