The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation, Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea : Illustrated by Proper Rules and Examples ...

E. & G.W. Blunt, 1864 - Nautical astronomy - 749 pages

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Table Pag 1 Difference of latitude and departure for points	1

Demonstration of the most useful propositions of geometry	7

Demonstration of theorems in plane trigonometry	13

Construction of the plane scale	18

Description and use of the sector	25

Division by logarithms	31

Difference for degrees 17	33

Table of solutions of the various cases of trigonometry	37

To regulate a chronometer by equal altitudes of the sun	219

To find the longitude at sea by lunar observations	225

Examples of lunar observations	232

Second method of working a lunar observation	239

Table of corrections for second differences	245

To find the longitude by the eclipses of Jupiters satellites	252

XLVI1 Logarithms in Lyonss improved method	253

To allow for the change of rate in a chronometer r 5157	259

A short introduction to astronomy and geography	45

Examples in geography	51

A table of solutions of the several cases of plane sailing t	58

A table showing how many miles of meridian distance correspond to a degree of longi	64

Table to correct the middle latitude	76

Table of solutions of the various cases of Mercators sailing	79

Construction and use of Mercators chart	87

To find the difference between the true and apparent directions of the wind	97

Gauging	103

To survey a coast in sailing along shore	109

To reduce soundings taken at any time of the tide to low water	115

Tides	120

Currents	124

To take an altitude by a fore observation	130

To measure the angular distance of the moon from a stai	136

To observe the meridian altitude of an object by a circle	140

Description and use of a portable transit instrument	146

Tables for correcting the adjustments qf a transit instrument	151

Variation of the compass	158

On the dip of the magnetic needle	164

To find the time of the moons passing the meridian	170

To find the latitude by the moons meridian altitude	171

To estimate the efTecta of small errors in the observations	179

First method of calculating double altitudes 130	185

Questions to exercise the learner in working double altitudes	193

To find the latitude by one altitude of the sun having your watch previously regulated	200

To find the latitude on shore by means of an artificial horizon 304	206

To find the time at sea by the moons altitude	213

Journal from Boston to Madeira 370	265

Meridional parts 68	356

Suns declination 68	358

A Equation of time 68	362

Suns right ascension 77	367

Amplitudes 78	368

Right ascensions and declinations of the fixed stars 80	376

Refraction of the heavenly bodies 88	378

To find the correction and logarithm of a lunar observation when the sun is used 97	387

For turning degrees and minutes into time and the contrary 131	425

Proportional logarithms 132	426

Logarithms of numbers 169	463

To find the time of the moons passing the meridian 230	xxx

Variation of the suns altitude in one minute from noon 239	xxxiv

Errors arising from a deviation of the telescope from a plane parallel to the plane of the instrument 244	xxxv

Corret ion of the mean refraction for various heights of the thermometer	xxxvi

and barometer 244	xxxix

CATALOGUE OF THE TABLES with examples of the uses of those not explained in other	392

Longitudes and latitudes of the fixed stars 245	394

Aberration of the planets in longitude 246	395

To find the horary motion of the moon 398	400

To calculate the longitude of a place from the observed beginning	409

To project an eclipse of the moon 415	415

To project an occultation of a fixed star 421	421

To find the longitude of a place by measuring the distance of the moon	427

Given the latitude of the moon and longitude of the moon and sun	433

Theorems in spherics 439	440

Redficlds theory of storms c 4Vt	448

Title	The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation, Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea : Illustrated by Proper Rules and Examples ...
Edition	32, reprint
Publisher	E. & G.W. Blunt, 1864
Original from	Princeton University
Digitized	Jan 23, 2009
Length	749 pages

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