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Practical navigation [electronic resource] : or an introduction to the whole art, containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles. Plain, Mercator, great circle sailing; and Astronomical Problems. The Use of divers Instruments; as also of the Plain Chart, Mercator's Chart, and both Globes. Sundry Useful Tables in Navigation: and a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the Logarithm Sines, Tangents, and Secants. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.
by Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXL [1711]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A synopsis of practical mathematics. [electronic resource] : Containing plain trigonometry, mensuration of heights, Distances, Surfaces, and Solids; Surveying of Land, Gauging, Navigation, and Gunnery. With tables of the logarithms of numbers, and of sines and tangents. For the use of Schools and Man of Business. By Alexander Ewing, Teacher of Mathematics, Edinburgh.
by Ewing, Alexander, d. 1804. Edition: Fourth edition.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Arithmetick, both in the theory and practice, [electronic resource] : made plain and easy in all the common and useful rules, both in whole numbers and fractions, vulgar and decimal. Also Interest Simple and Compound, and Annuities. Likewise Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. AS Also The Tables and Construction of Logarithms, with their Use in Arithmetick, and Compound Interest. Together with Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression, and the Combination and Election, Permutation, and Composition of Numbers and Quantities. With the Addition of several Algebraical Questions. The like not Extant. By John Hill, Gent. With a preface by H. Ditton, Gent.
by Hill, John, Gent. Edition: The ninth edition, accurately revised, corrected, and improved by Mr. E. Hatton, and others.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The British mariner's assistant [electronic resource] : containing forty tables, adapted to the several purposes of trigonometry and navigation. To which are prefixed an essay on logarithms, and navigation epitomized; Containing Rules for solving the most necessary Problems, with the Method of finding the Latitude at Sea, by Observations taken either before or after Noon. Also a more accurate Method of finding the Time of high Water than any other hitherto published, &c. Second edition with additions. By Benjamin Donne, Teacher of the Mathematics, and Lecturer in Experimental Philosophy, at Bristol.
by Donne, Benjamin, 1729-1798. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The geometrician [electronic resource] : containing essays on plane geometry, and trigonometry: with their application to the solutions of a variety of problems, which are of great Use in measuring Heights and Distances of Places, surveying of Counties, Sea-Coasts, &c. By Benjamin Donn, Teacher of the Mathematics, and Lecturer in experimental Philosophy, Author of the Essays on Arithmetic, Book-Keeping, the British Mariner's Assistant, &c.
by Donne, Benjamin, 1729-1798. Edition: The second edition.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Tables of correct and concise logarithms [electronic resource] : for numbers, sines, tangents, secants, Complements-Arithmetical, Supplements, &c. Accurately deduced from Perfect Original Computations, Arranged after the best Manner for Use in the Sciences: with a compendious introduction to logarithmetic; Containing Short And Plain Directions For Deducing Natural Numbers to Six Places of Figures, the Log. Sines, Tangents, Secants and Versed Sines, to Seconds of a Degree; The Natural Sines, Tangents, Secants, and Versed Sines, to the like Accuracy; And A Variety of Logarithmical Theorems, Applicable In Arithmetic, Geometry, Trigonometry, Navigation, Astronomy, Surveying, Gunnery, the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, &c. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematics, London.
by Dunn, Samuel, d. 1794. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Epitome of the art of navigation [electronic resource] : or, a short, easy and methodical way to become a compleat navigator: Containing, Practical Geometry, Plane and Spheric, Superficial and Solid; with its Uses in all Kinds of Mensuration. Trigonometry, Plain and Spheric, both Geometric, Instrumental, and Logarithmic; with its Uses in Navigation, viz. In Plane, Mercator's, and Great-Circle Sailing, Geography, Astronomy, the Projection of the Sphere, &c. The Description and Use of the Plane Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, Hemispheres, and divers other Instruments. A New Form of keeping a Sea-Reckoning, or Account of a Ship's Way. A Traverse-Table; A Table of Meridional Parts; a Table of 10,000 Logarithms, and Logarithmic Sines, Tangents and Secants, carefully Corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The whole revis'd, and corrected, with the utmost care, by William Mountaine, Teacher of the Mathematics.
by Atkinson, James, fl. 1667-1715. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Measuring made easy. [electronic resource] : Being the most facile and expeditious method extant; Whereby any Person, unskill'd in Decimal and Duodecimal Arithmetic, may find the Superficial, or Solid Content of Geometrical Figures, truly and expeditiously; as also the Content of all Kinds of Casks and Figures, in Beer or Wine. A treatise very useful for all Carpenters, Joyners, Painters, Glaziers, Plaisterers, Plumbers, Coopers, Paviers, Backmakers, Bricklayers, &c. By Isaac Overley, Teacher of the Mathematics. Usus perficit.
by Overley, Isaac. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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An account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, [electronic resource] : of Merchiston; by David Stewart, Earl of Buchan, and Walter Minto, L.L.D. Illustrated with copper-plates.
by Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829 | Minto, Walter, 1753-1796 [aut]. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The mathematicians's [sic] companion, [electronic resource] : or a table of logarithms from 1 to 10,860. Also, the logarithmic sines, tangents, and secants, ... and the sines and tangents to 180 degrees; ... to which is prefixed, a short introduction to decimal and logarithmic arithmetic. By John Adams, ...
by Adams, John, 1757-1807. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1796Other title: Mathematician's companion.Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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