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 131
ncglecl of a few minutes in the courfe. ti\ MERCAIOr/s bAlLi^ld. CASE II. yloth Iniliudeh andthe departure gi-vcH, to find the eourjc, dfiance, anddifference of longitude. A flap in the latitude .of 49° 5/ N. and longitude of 150 i6/W.^ failsfouth-weflerly until her departure is 789 miles, and then… … XLong*. By PROJECTION, With the proper difference of latitude and departure, project as in CafeVI. Plane Sailing ; by drawing the meridian AEB, on which take AEequal to the proper difference of latitude 637 miles; ereft ED perpendicularto AE and make it equal to the departure 789 miles; join AD and…
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