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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 ...

Title
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 ... / by Nathaniel Bowditch. [Title continues in note]
Author
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
Publication
New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ..., 1842.

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Additional Authors
  • Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.
  • Hooker, William, 1782-1856.
Description
xv, [1], 317, 447, 4 p., 13 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map; 24 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • The plates are engraved by William Hooker.
  • Four pages at end contain publisher's advertisement.
  • Title continued: ...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, occulations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding
  • the latitude by two altitudes.
  • "Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry."
Call Number
VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1842)
OCLC
20467487
Author
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838.
Title
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 ... / by Nathaniel Bowditch. [Title continues in note]
Imprint
New-York : Published by E. & G. W. Blunt, proprietors ..., 1842.
Edition
13th new stereotype ed.
Added Author
Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889.
Hooker, William, 1782-1856.
Research Call Number
VXF (Bowditch, N. New American practical navigator. 1842)
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