A treatise on ship-building and navigation. In three parts, wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector ... Also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts ... To which is added by way of appendix, an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel .. (1754)
Murray, Mungo, d. 1770, Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782. Treatise on ship-building · London, Printed for D. Henry and R. Cave, for the author · leaf 281
Sect. I. MERCATORs SAILING. 237 fiance* in the parallel of 32 4». will be ftill Ids than their diftancc lathe parallel of 20° 53, which fuppok i2X leagues; the d^ticrence ot la-titude from A to B, is 236 leagues, fo if a (lup at A fails 236 kaguesdue north, and then 131; leagues due eaft, llie will…
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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-16-39.webp)
