The New American Practical Navigator ... Exemplified in a Journal Kept from Boston to Madeira ...: With an Appendix ...

Nathaniel Bowditch

E.M. Blunt, 1821 - Navigation - 600 pages

Contents

• Demonstration of the most useful pro: 19
• Multiplication by logarithms: 31
• A short introduction to astronomy: 43
• To calculate the longi: 45
• Examples in geography: 50
• A table of solutions of the several: 59
• Questions to exercise the learner: 93
• Description and uses of the circle: 98
• Errors arising from a deviation: 99
• To measure the angular distance: 104
• Verification of the mirrors and: 107
• Variation of the compass: 117
• To find the difference between: 120
• Equation of the equinoxes in lon: 122
• To find the latitude by the meridian: 126
• To find the latitude by one altitude: 134
• To find the latitude on shore by means: 138
• To calculate the longi: 140
• To find the apparent time by an alti: 144
• To find the longitude at sea by lunar: 148
• XL: 154
• latitude and longitude: 164
• plane sailing: 203
• General observations on the taking: 209
• Second method of working a lunar: 216
• Traverse sailing: 221
• 161: 263
• Correction of the mean refrac: 270
• To calculate the altitude of: 272
• Suns declination: 68
• For reducing the suns declination: 74
• Suns right ascension: 77
• before and after passing the meri: 78
• Suns rising and setting: 85
• To find the correction and logarithm: 89
• Theorems in middle latitude sailing 67 Variation observed at several places 117: 117
• Problem II To find the horary motion: 164
• To find the longitude by the eclipses: 189
• To find the longitude by a time: 3
• Longitudes and Latitudes of: 4
• dian: 4
• Reduction of latitude and hori: 11

Bibliographic information

• Title: The New American Practical Navigator ... Exemplified in a Journal Kept from Boston to Madeira ...: With an Appendix ...
• Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
• Edition: 5
• Publisher: E.M. Blunt, 1821
• Original from: Princeton University
• Digitized: Jan 26, 2009
• Length: 600 pages