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 theorems in plane Table of solutions of the various: 13
• Construction of the plane scale: 20
• Multiplication by logarithms 31 To adjust a quadrant: 31
• Table of solutions of the various cases Description and uses of the circle: 36
• A short introduction to astronomy the sun from the moon by a circle 103: 43
• Examples in geography: 50
• 175: 63
• Traverse sailing: 85
• To and the moons declination 124 To determine the height of a moun: 125
• To find the latitude by one altitude To survey a harbour by observations: 134
• To end the latitude on shore by means time of the tide to low water 193: 138
• Te regulate a watch by equal alti Currents: 202
• General observations on the taking a Rules for working a days work: 209
• Questions to exercise the learner in muths observed at cqual altitudes: 221
• Witchells improved method of find ples of the uses of those not explain: 267
• To calculate the sons altitude at any signs as in algebra: 272
• Suns declination: 272
• For reducing the suns declination V For turning degrees and minutes into: 272
• To calculate the altitude of: 272
• XXXVII: 272
• To find the longitude by an eclipse of and sun or a star: 272
• To find the longitude by a time longitude of the nonagesimal 561: 272
• To regulate a chronometer by lunar culation: 272
• To find the longitude by a variation ing the altitude and longitude of: 272
• Reduction of latitude and hori: 272
• 215: 283
• 233: 303
• keeper: 317

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