The mariner's compass rectified

containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass: with thetrue time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass upon which they rise and set: with tables of amplitudes. Which tables of sun-dials, semidiurnal-arches and amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 degrees of latitude, either north or south. : With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. : Also a table of the latitudes and longitudes of places

by Andrew Wakely

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