The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, Volumes 1-3 |
Contents
PART | 125 |
FIRST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ART OF NAVIGATION | 127 |
COMMERCE COLONIZATION AND WAR | 176 |
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Common terms and phrases
altitude angle art of navigation astrolabe astronomy Azores Baffin Bermudas Blaeu Blundeville Bourne Bourne's calculation Cape Captain chord circle coast compass cosine course cross-staff Davis declination degrees departure difference of latitude difference of longitude distance sailed Dutch East edition England English equator error explained geometry globe Gresham College Gunter Hood's hour Imprinted at London Indies instruments Jacobean John land latitude leagues length Lizard log-line logarithms longitude mariners master mathematical mathematician measure Mercator's meridian miles minutes moon nautical North North-West observations parallel passage pilot places plane chart plane sailing Pole practical Printed problems published quadrant rhumb lines right ascension rutter sayle scale seamen secants Sector ship ship's sight sine South stars sun's Sunne tables tangents Thomas Thomas Digges tion traverse treatise triangles trigonometrical trigonometrical functions Trigonometrie Trinity House variation voyage West William Borough William Bourne winds Wright