The advancement of the art of navigation

Folger bibliographic ID: 152217
ESTC number: R33402
Wing number: P2043
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 206737

Edition

The second edition corrected by the author, Henry Phillips

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Each part has a separate title page, dated 1685; the register is continuous through parts 2 to 4; Includes: "The seamans canon of triangles", "A brief canon of triangles" and "The advancement of the art of navigation, the second part" The unpaginated leaves contain the tables With two final advertisement leaves

Extended title: The advancement of the art of navigation : in two parts. The first, shewing by a new canon of sines, tangents, and secants, how to resolve all cases of right-lined triangles, only by looking into the tables, without any calculation. Particularly applied to all the three kinds of sailing; viz. By the plain-chart. By mercater's chart. By a great circle. And to the art of surveying. The second part. Shewing several observations, for the better ordering the logline, and for the more exact and ready measuring, not only minutes, but seconds of time; with some new experiments for the more constant finding of a ship's way
Alternate titles: Brief canon of triangles, Seamans canon of triangles

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author: Phillippes, Henry, -1677?