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, 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, occultations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes

by Nathaniel Bowditch, Philip Henry Cooper, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, George Wood Logan, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equi, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ..., Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, Nima, and United States Navy Department Hydrograph...

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