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 of solutions of the various cases of Mercators sailing	79

To work a compound course by middle latitude or Mercators sailing	86

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

To find the time of high water by a Nautical Almanac	121

Description and use of a quadrant of reflection	128

General remarks on the taking of a lunar observation	228

Second method of working a lunar observation	239

Table of corrections for second differences	245

Method of combining several lunar observations and determining the error of the chro	251

To allow for the change of rate in a chronometer	257

To correct the dead reckoning	263

Variation of the suns altitude in one minute from noon	239

Logarithms in Lyonss improved method 253	253

To adjust a sextant	134

Description and use of a portable transit instrument	145

Tables for correcting the adjustments of a transit instrument	153

Variation of the compass	158

Wariation observed	164

To find the latitude by a meridian altitude of the sun or a fixed star	170

To find the latitude by the moons meridian altitude	171

To estimate the effects of small errors in the observations	179

Second method	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 by the polar star	208

To find the time at sea by a planets altitude	215

To regulate a chronometer by means of a transit instrument	221

LVIII Third correction in Lyonss improved method 275	275

Nova Scotia 841 AZOF sea of 851	332

w Terra del Fuego 339 CAPE BRETONIsland	341

Peru 340 CAROLINE ISLANDS	361

CATALogue of the TABLEs with examples of the uses of those not explained in other	392

Longitudes and latitudes of the fixed stars	395

To find the horary motion of the moon	400

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

To project an eclipse of the moon	415

To project an occultation of a fixed star	421

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

To find the longitude of a place by the moons passage over	434

Redfields theory of storms c	443

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 ...
Author	Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch
Edition	32, reprint
Publisher	E. & G.W. Blunt, 1864
Original from	Princeton University
Digitized	Jan 23, 2009
Length	749 pages

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