The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land: To which are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place, and Variation of the Compass; with New Tables, Volume 2

Andrew Mackay

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810 - Latitude

Contents

• TO: 1
• To convert Time Longitude: 41
• To reduce the true Altitude of the Sun to its apparent Altitude: xi
• TABLE XIX: 59
• Error of Observation arising from a deviation of one Minute of the Plane of: 64
• For computing the Apparent Time: 76
• Natural Versed Sines to every Tenth Second of the Quadrant: 173
• 81: 181
• Correction of the Logarithmic Difference when the Moons Distance from the: 218
• To find the Aberration of a Star in Longitude and Latitude: 353
• Containing the Methods of calculating the Time of the Rising of the Sun Moon: 364
• APPENDIX No II: 375
• To reduce points of the Compass to Negrees and Conversely: 385

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land: To which are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place, and Variation of the Compass; with New Tables, Volume 2; The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land: To which are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place, and Variation of the Compass; with New Tables, Andrew Mackay; The theory and practice of finding the longitude at sea or land, Andrew Mackay
• Author: Andrew Mackay
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810
• Original from: Princeton University
• Digitized: Jan 23, 2009