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 49
equal parts» Firft draw the diameter through thecentre, which will divide it into twoequal parts ; bifeft the diameter withanother right line perpendicular there-to, and the circle will be divided intofour equal parts or quadrants : bifecteach of thefe quadrants again by rightlines drawn through… … PROBLEM XIII.To divide a given line into any number of equal parts.Let it be required to divide the lineAB into five equal parts : From thepoint A draw any line AD, making anangle with the line AB : then throughthe point B draw a line BC parallel toAD; and from A, with any fmall open-ing in your…
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![An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-englishpilotcart00thor-18-94.webp)
![An illustration from Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus : qvo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distributio, verbo [pantamorphon] Protei regnum, universae denique naturae majestas & divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur, abditorum effectuum causae acri indagine inquistae demonstrantur, cognitae per artis & naturae conjugium ad humanae vitae necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparata, necnon novo modo & ratione applicantur. Ad Alexandrum VII. pont. opt. max. (1678)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-mundussubterrane02kirc-194-119.webp)
