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A new directory for the East-Indies [electronic resource] : containing, I. The first discoveries made in the East-Indies by European voyagers and Travellers. II. The Origin Construction, and Application Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. The natural Causes, and observed Phaenomena, of the constant and variable Winds, Trade-Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, throughout the East-India Oceans and Seas. IV. A Description of the Sea Coasts, Islands, Rocks, Harbours, Shoals, Sands, Sea-Marks, Soundings, &c. in the Oriental Navigation. V. Directions for navigating in the East-India Seas, to the best Advantage, at different Times of the Year. VI. Directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies, as recommended and practised by experienced Navigators and Mariners. The whole being a work originally begun upon the plan of the oriental Neptune, augmented and improved by Mr. Will. Herbert, Mr. Will. Nichelson, and others; and now methodised, corrected, and further enlarged, by Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London. Sixth edition. To which is added an appendix.
by Herbert, William, 1718-1795 | Dunn, Samuel, d. 1794. Material type:  Book; Language:English; Format:
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 Publisher: MDCCXCI. [1791]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Memoir of a chart of the China Sea; including the Philippine, Mollucca, and Banda Islands, with part of the coast of New Holland and New Guinea. Dedicated, BY Permission, To the Society of Managing Owners of the Ships in the East India Company's Service. The second edition, corrected. By George Robertson [electronic resource].
by Robertson, George, d. 1791. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The mariner's new calendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and practical geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension: Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars: Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places: A large Table of Difference of Latitude and De parture, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tice Table: The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings at coming into the Channel: With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematics. The whole revised, and adjusted to the new stile by William Mountaine, F.R.S [electronic resource].
by Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1785Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The seaman's complete daily assistant, [electronic resource] : and new mariner's compass: being an easy method of keeping a journal at sea. Containing Rules for working the Cases in Plane, Middle Latitude, and Mercator's Sailing, by the Tables of Difference of Latitude and Departure. The Method to find the Latitude, Longitude, and Variation of the Compass; how Allowances are to be made for Leeway, Variation, Heave of the Sea, Setting of the currents, and to Correct the Dead Reckoning by an Observation for a single Day or many; with all the Tables requisite to be used at Sea. The whole exemplified in a journal from the Lizard to the island of St. Mary, And every Day's Work pricked off upon a Mercator's Chart. To Which IS Prefixed A Short And Easy Treatise ON Arithmetic: Containing The necessary Rules of common Arithmetic, Decimal Fractions, the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, with their Use in measuring all Kinds of Boards, Planks, Cases, Casks, Bales, and Packages usually taken on Board. The Gauging of Casks, and finding a Ship's Tonnage, worked by Figures, Gunter's Scale and Logarithms. Likewise the Methods of keeping a Ship's Accounts, Disbursements, the Forms of Cargo-Books, Receipts for Wages, Invoice and Manifest of Goods, Bills of Parcels, and Letters of Credit. To this edition is added, the use of Hadley's quadrant, and Mercator' chart, With Many Valuable Improvements. By John Hamilton Moore, Teacher Of AtNavigation, Hydrographer And Chart-Seller To His Royal Highness The Duke Of AtClarence.
by Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807. Edition: The fifth edition.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1796Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The mariners compass rectified [electronic resource] : containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass: The Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass that the Sun and Stars rise and set with: And Tables of Amplitude: with a table of the latitude and longitude of places. Calculated from the Equinoctial, to 60 deg. of Latitude, &c. Also a description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. By Andrew Wakely, Math. Carefully corrected, and very much enlarged, with many useful additions. By Ja. Atkinson, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
by Wakely, Andrew. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1716Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A treatise containing the practical part of fortification. [electronic resource] : In four parts. I. The Theory of Walls, Arches, and Timbers, with several Tables of their Dimensions. II. The Knowledge of the Materials, their Properties, Qualities, and the Manner of using them. III. The Manner of tracing a Fortress on the Ground, the making an Estimate, and executing the Works. IV. The Method of building Aquatics, as Stone-Bridges, Harbours, Quays, Wharfs, Sluices, and Aqueducts. Illustrated with twenty eight copper plates. For the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification.
by Muller, John, 1699-1784. Edition: The second edition, with improvements.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXIV. [1764]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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