Tables for Facilitating the Calculations of Nautical Astronomy,: And Particularly of the Latitude of a Ship at Sea from Two Altitudes of the Sun, and that of the Longitude from the Distances of the Moon from the Sun Or a Star; Containing the Natural Versed-sines to Every 10 Seconds, and the Logarithmic-sines, Double-sines, Versed-sines, &c. to Every Minute from 0 to 180 Degrees; and Several Other Tables, Useful in Astronomy and NavigationPrinted, at the Oriental Press, by Wilson & Company Wild Court, for R. Faulder, New Bond-Street., 1801 - Nautical astronomy - 383 pages |
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Page 27 - Add the sun's declination to the elevation of the equator, if the latitude of the place, and the declination of the sun, are both on the same side.
Page 36 - The interval between that reduced time and the given day will give the correction which is to be applied * to the time of high water at full and change of the...
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| Title | Tables for Facilitating the Calculations of Nautical Astronomy,: And Particularly of the Latitude of a Ship at Sea from Two Altitudes of the Sun, and that of the Longitude from the Distances of the Moon from the Sun Or a Star; Containing the Natural Versed-sines to Every 10 Seconds, and the ... |
| Author | José de Mendoza y Riós |
| Contributors | Robert Faulder, Wilson and Co. (London, England) |
| Publisher | Printed, at the Oriental Press, by Wilson & Company Wild Court, for R. Faulder, New Bond-Street., 1801 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | May 24, 2006 |
| Length | 383 pages |
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