A Complete Set of Nautical Tables: Containing All that are Requisite, with the Nautical Almanac, in Keeping a Ship's Reckoning at Sea, and in Ascertaining the Latitude and Longitude by Celestial Observations; Including an Accurate and Extensive Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Ports, Harbours, Capes, Etc., in the World; with Several Other New and Improved Tables. To which is Prefixed a Copious Explanation of the Tables; Likewise Astronomical Problems for Finding the Latitude ... and the Longitude ... |
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30 Cape added Africa Bank Cape centre chronometer Co-sec Co-sine Co-tan Coast Corr correction corresponding daily declination Diff difference Difference of Latitude Dist distance Ditto elapsed England entr Equation error EXAMPLE feet figures France give given Greenwich half Harbour Head horizontal parallax Ireland Island Isle latitude Latitude and Departure LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES less Light LOGARITHMIC SINES lower limb mean meridian METHOD minutes Moon's Mount Nautical Almanac nearest noon North observed opposite Places planet Point Port proportional Pulo reduce Reef refraction remainder right ascension rising River Rock Rules Secant seconds ship Shoal Sine South Point star Star's subtracted Sun's Sun's declination sun's lower limb Suvers Table taken Tang TANGENTS Tower Town true altitude United Variation Venus West