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 135
fails E. S. E. until her de-parture is957 miles; requiredthe diftance failed, and the lat.itude and longitude in ? Cu- — X -Lon£. By PROJECTION. Draw the meridian ABC, and at a diftance from it equal to the depar-ture 957 miles draw the line FD parallel to ABC ; make the angle BADequal to the… … ^CERCATQRs SAILING, 3 23 tsic meridional difference of latitude 667 miles, make the line AC equalthereto, and draw CE perpendicular to AC meeting AD continued in E ;*hen will CE be the difference of longitude 1610 miles. By LOGARITHMS. To find the diftance.As the line courfe 6pts. 9.96562Is to the…
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