Tables Requisite to be Used with The Nautical Ephemeris for Finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea |
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| Title | Tables Requisite to be Used with The Nautical Ephemeris for Finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea |
| Author | Great Britain. Commissioners of Longitude |
| Contributor | Nevil Maskelyne |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W. Richardson, sold by C. Nourse, 1781 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Feb 5, 2009 |
| Length | 237 pages |
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