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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, ...
- Title
- 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, ... / by Nathaniel Bowditch... and since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch. [Title continues in note]
- Author
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
- Publication
- New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, Proprietors ..., 1848.
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- Description
- xv, [1], 317, 458, 2 p., 14 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., chart, map; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- The plates are engraved by William Hooker.
- Two pages at end contain publisher's advertisement.
- Title continued: ... 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, occulations, and transits of the moon's
- limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes.
- "Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry."
- Call Number
- VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1848)
- OCLC
- 20469308
- Author
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
- Title
- 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, ... / by Nathaniel Bowditch... and since his decease, continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch. [Title continues in note]
- Imprint
- New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, Proprietors ..., 1848.
- Edition
- 18th stereotype ed.
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- Added Author
- Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.Hooker, William, 1782-1856.
- Research Call Number
- VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1848)