EPITOME OF THE ART OF NAVIGATION:; or, a short, easy, and methodical way to become an astronomer, and a complete navigator : containing an introduction to decimal and logarithmic arithmetic ... revised and corrected by John Adams ...
London: printed for Messrs. Mount and Page, on Tower-Hill, 1782. Early reprint. 8vo: xiv,[2],336,[140]pp, with five plates (three folding), numerous diagrams and figures in the text, tables of latitude, meridional parts, and logarithms. Bound in modern cloth backed boards. Leaves some foxed and browned. WorldCat lists just six copies. Item #59358
Comprehensive manual for the navigator, covering in detail (with examples) decimal and logarithmic arithmetic, practical and spherical geometry, plane trigonometry, Mercator's chart (and its failings), geography, nautical astronomy, uses of the octant and sextant, and keeping a sea-reckoning journal. First published in 1686, this edition revised and corrected, with "many and various" additions, by John Adams.
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