A Complete Epitome of Practical Navigation: Containing All Necessary Instruction for Keeping a Ship's Reckoning at Sea: with the Most Approved Methods of Ascertaining the Latitude ... and the Longitude ... Including a Journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira; and Every Other Requisite to Form the Complete Navigator ... Illustrated by Several Engravings. To which is Added a Correct and Extensive Set of Tables ... |
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Common terms and phrases
angle Apparent distance arch Argo Navis centre Chro chronometer Co-sec Co-sine Co-tan Coast compass Corr correction corresponding course and distance degrees Diff difference of latitude difference of longitude Dist Ditto entr Equation EXAMPLE extent will reach feet given Greenwich mean Harbour high water horizon index error Island Latitude and Departure LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES Light line of numbers line of sines logarithm LOGARITHMIC SINES meridian altitude middle latitude miles minutes moon Moon's apparent altitude Natural Versed Nautical Almanac nonius noon North observer's eye parallel perpendicular planet Port Porto Santo Pulo radius refraction right ascension Rock sails Secant semidiameter sextant ship ship's Shoal sine South East Point South Point star Star's subtracted Sun's declination sun's lower limb Sun's true Table taken Tang tangent true altitude true distance true longitude variation West zenith distance