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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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | John William Norie |
| Edition | 12 |
| Publisher | C. Wilson, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 19, 2009 |
| Length | 360 pages |
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