Tables to Facilitate the Necessary Calculations in Nautical Astronomy ...: Designed to Enable Navigators to Determine Their Longitude from Lunar Observations ... Prefixed, an Explanation of the Tables ... |
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| Title | Tables to Facilitate the Necessary Calculations in Nautical Astronomy ...: Designed to Enable Navigators to Determine Their Longitude from Lunar Observations ... Prefixed, an Explanation of the Tables ... |
| Author | Daniel Stansbury |
| Publisher | The Author, 1822 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 19, 2009 |
| Length | 340 pages |
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