The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation, containing all the tables necessary ... (1802)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Lee, Marvin, former owner. DSI, Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828 DSI, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · [Salem] : Printed at Newburyport, Mass., 1802, by Edmund M. Blunt, for Cushing and Appleton, Salem : Sold by every book-seller, ship- chandler, and mathematical-instrument-maker in the United States and West Indies · leaf 106
of the fame name as the greater. With this difference.of latitude and departure, the courfe and diftance made good are found as jj^Cafe VI, Plane Sailing. example; J. Suppofe a {hip takes her departure from Block Ifland in the latitude of;410 10 N. the middle of it bearing N. N. W. diftance by… … Let L reprefent the middle of Block-Ifland ; draw the meridian LM, andpn L as a centre, with the chord of 6o°, fweep a circle to reprefent thecompafs, on which mark the various courfes failed, and the bearing of theland at the time of taking the departure ; oppofite to this bearing draw theS. S. E.…
Navigation · Nautical astronomy
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