A treatise on ship-building and navigation. In three parts, wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector ... Also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts ... To which is added by way of appendix, an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel ..
Mungo Murray's 1754 London treatise on ship-building and navigation, printed for the author, instructed shipwrights, naval officers and students in geometry, instrument use and hull design, with an appended English abridgment of Duhamel du Monceau's Paris work. The 44 plates are fine-line engraved diagrams: radiating construction lines, gridded scales, numbered tables, sector and hull curves, useful as sparse technical linework and measured-grid backgrounds.
