| Nathaniel Bowditch : 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 LONGITUD 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 OF 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 USEFULEVOLUTIONS AT SEA: WITH AN APENDIX 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 LINE OVER THE MERIDIAN; ALSO A NEW METHOD OF FINDING THE LATITUDE BY TWO ALTITUDES | |
