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 130
d the direel courfeattd diftance between them. Required the bearing and diftance from Cape Cod Light-Houfe inthe latitude of 42° 5N. and longitude of 700 14 W. to the ifland of St.Mzty, one ®f the Weftern Iflands, in the latitude of 37°. N. and longitudeof 7? 6 W. ? MERCATOR S SAILING, II7 Cape… … Draw the meridian MT equal to the meridional difference of latitude395 miles, fet off alfo upon it MI equal to the proper difference of latitude305 miles ; perpendicular to MT draw TH and IO, make TH equal to thedifference of longitude 2708 miles, draw MH cutting IO in O; then willthe angle TMH be…
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