Astronomia Accurata; Or the Royal Astronomer and Navigator: Containing New Improvements in Astronomy, Chronology, and Navigation. ... By Robert Heath, ...

Robert Heath

author, 1760 - 412 pages

Contents

• 1: 10
• GEOGRAPHICAL TABLE: 10
• To determine the eccentric Anomaly of a Pla: 10
• Difference of Years: 10
• centricity 1685: 12
• To determine the greateſt Equation of a Planet: 18
• Abfolute Equation of Time for 58 Years: 21
• Conftruction of the above: 32
• Table of Equation of the Suns Center for Eccentricity: 57
• Table of fecond Equation of the Moons Apogee: 64
• cording to Horrox or Flamflead: 103
• DIFFERENT METHODS of folving the Keplerian: 109
• To determine the Eccentricity and other: 117
• 78: 122
• netary Bodies Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter and: 123
• A Table fhewing at Sight the Number of Days from: 129
• Difference of Months: 134
• The fydereal Day correctly deduced: 135
• Aftronomical civil periodical fynodical and antient: 141
• The Birth and Death of Chrift: 147
• A Table of the Time of high Water at feveral noted Pla: 153
• Of fundry Kinds anſwered: 166
• Chronological Rules arithmetically applied to Practice: 177
• Moveable Feafts from 1759 to 1800 N S: 182
• PERPETUAL TIMETABLES or GENERAL: 187
• Monthday of New Full and Quarter Moons for: 188
• fion for each Day of the Month in the Year 1756: 196
• Table of femidiurnal or femiduration Arcs for finding: 203
• Catalogue of 307 eminent fixed Stars in the North: 213
• Principal ASTRONOMICAL QUESTIONS: 224
• The Nature and Caufe of Twilight: 231
• Equation to be fubtracted from the Latitude of a Planet: 251
• Table of the vifible Eclipfes of the Sun and Phænome: 260
• Table fhewing by the Moons Age the near Time of: 262
• The SEAMANs READY COMPUTER: 273
• Ufe of the Seamans Computer exemplified 281 to: 283
• Table of meridional Parts according to the Spheroid: 293
• Dimensions of the Earth as a Spheroid confidered from: 301
• to: 307
• Dimensions and Weight of Shot: 313
• A Journal of a Voyage in the Dreadnought Man of: 319
• General Affection of ſpherical Triangles: 326
• The Properties of ſpherical Triangles: 332
• Equation of the Moon: 362
• Rules for finding the moveable Feafts and Holidays: 374
• Remarks: 406

Bibliographic information

• Title: Astronomia Accurata; Or the Royal Astronomer and Navigator: Containing New Improvements in Astronomy, Chronology, and Navigation. ... By Robert Heath, ...; Astronomia Accurata; Or the Royal Astronomer and Navigator: Containing New Improvements in Astronomy, Chronology, and Navigation. ... By Robert Heath, Robert Heath
• Author: Robert Heath
• Publisher: author, 1760
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Feb 26, 2009
• Length: 412 pages