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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Demonstration of the most useful propositions of geometry	15

Description of Gunters scale	21

To find the logarithm of any number and the contrary	30

Plane trigonometry	36

To find the latitude by the moons meridian altitude	45

Plane sailing	48

A table of solutions of the several cases of plane sailing	59

Questions to exercise the learner in parallel sailing	66

To find the latitude by the mean of several altitudes of the sun taken near noon by	204

To find the time at sea by a planets altitude	216

To find the longitude at sea by lunar observations	228

Method of taking a lunar observation when you have only one observer	239

To calculate the moons altitude	248

To allow for the change of rate in a chronometer	259

Journal from Boston to Madeira	265

Meridional parts	270

38	77

Table of solutions of the various cases of Mercators sailing	79

41	83

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

52	91

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

Gauging	103

58	107

To survey a coast in sailing along shore	109

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

Tides	122

65	127

Description and use of a quadrant of reflection	128

To adjust a sextant	134

Adjustments of a circle of reflection	138

Description and use of a portable transit instrument	145

Tables for correcting the adjustments of a transit instrument	151

Suns declination	156

Variation of the compass	158

To find the latitude by double altitudes of the moon	160

On the dip of the magnetic needle	164

To find the time of the moons passing the meridian	170

To estimate the effects of small errors in the observations	185

IV	68

A Correction for the daily variation of the equation of time	77

A Parallax in altitude of a planet	86

To find the correction and logarithm of a lunar observation when	97

Proportional logarithms	132

XXIV	160

Logarithms of numbers	169

To find the time of the moons passing the meridian	230

Variation of the suns altitude in one minute from noon	239

Longitudes and latitudes of the fixed stars	245

Logarithms in Lyonss improved method 253	253

Third correction in Lyonss improved method 275	275

Augmentation of the moons semidiameter found by the nonagesimal	296

CHILI coast of	361

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

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	423

To find the longitude of a place by measuring the distance of the moon	429

Given the right ascension and declination to find the longitude	435

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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