The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation; Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea ... the Whole Exemplified in a Journal Kept from Boston to Madeira ... with an Appendix, Containing Methods to Calculating Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and Occultations of the Fixed Stars ...

E. & G. W. Blunt, 1841 - Nautical astronomy - 636 pages

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Demonstration of theorems in plane trigonometry	8

Geometrical problems	15

Description of Gunters scale	21

To find the logarithm of any number and the contrary	28

To find the degrees minutes and seconds corresponding to any log sine cosine c	35

Rightangled plane trigonometry	41

A short introduction to astronomy and geography	47

Examples in geography	48

To observe the transit of any heavenly body over the meridian	150

To find the distance of the land in order to calculate the dip	155

To calculate the true azimuth	160

To find the latitude by a meridian altitude of the sun or a fixed star	166

Method of combining several lunar observations and determining the error of the chro	251

Method of keeping a reckoning at sea	260

1	70

To find the correction and logarithm of a lunar observation depending	102

Parallel sailing	63

Table of solutions of the several cases of middle latitude sailing	76

Table of solutions of the various cases of Mercators sailing	79

To work a compound course by middle latitude or Mercators sailing	86

To find the difference between the true and apparent directions of the wind	97

Gauging	103

To survey a coast in sailing along shore	109

To reduce soundings taken at any time of the tide to low water	115

Tides	120

Of the logline and halfminute glass	126

Description and use a sextant of reflection	133

To measure the angular distance of the moon from a star	137

Verification of the mirrors and colored glasses	143

XXVIII To find the time of the moons passing the meridian	172

To reduce the numbers of Table XXXII to other given intervals from	243

change of 100 seconds in its declination 251	251

To change solar time into sideral time	329

Extracts from the Nautical Almanac	383

CATALOGUE OF THE TABLES with examples of the uses of those not explained in other	390

To find the horary motion of the moon	398

To calculate the moons parallax in latitude and longitude	404

To calculate the longitude of a place from the observed beginning	410

To calculate an eclipse of the sun	417

To calculate the beginning or end of an eclipse or occultation	425

To find the longitude of a place by the moons passage over	429

Title	The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation; Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea ... the Whole Exemplified in a Journal Kept ...
Author	Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch
Edition	12
Publisher	E. & G. W. Blunt, 1841
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	Aug 19, 2009
Length	636 pages

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