Research Catalog

Title

A new theoretical and practical treatise on navigation : in which the auxiliary branches of mathematics and astronomy ... are treated of : also the theory and most simple methods of finding time, latitude and longitude ... / by M.F. Maury ...

Author

Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873.

Publication

Philadelphia : E.C. & J. Biddle ..., c1845.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burndy Library. dnr DSI
• Hanford Collection.

Description

viii, [3], 12-336, 184 p., 10 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Maury's navigation.

Subjects

• Navigation
• Mathematics
• Nautical astronomy

Note

• Spine title: Maury's navigation.
• Edition statement from Preface to the third edition, p. [vi].
• Tables XIX and XX and Index (p. [297]-336) are bound after Tables I-XVIII (184 p. inserted after p. [296]).
• Pasted inside front cover: General order, Navy Department. Maury's Navigation is hereby adopted as the textbook of the Navy ...
• Includes index.

Call Number

VXF (Maury, M. F. New theoretical and practical treatise on navigation)

OCLC

18483589

Author

Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873.

Title

A new theoretical and practical treatise on navigation : in which the auxiliary branches of mathematics and astronomy ... are treated of : also the theory and most simple methods of finding time, latitude and longitude ... / by M.F. Maury ...

Imprint

Philadelphia : E.C. & J. Biddle ..., c1845.

Edition

Third edition.

Added Author

Burndy Library. Donor DSI

Hanford Collection.

Added Title

Maury's navigation.

Research Call Number

VXF (Maury, M. F. New theoretical and practical treatise on navigation)