The Practical Navigator: Being a Complete Epitome of Navigation: to which are Added, All the Tables Requisite for Determining the Latitude and Longitude at Sea ; Containing the Different Kinds of Sailing, and Necessary Corrections for Lee-way, Variation, &c. Exemplified in a Journal at Sea ... The Whole Illustrated with Engravings

John Hamilton Moore

T. Cadell, 1828 - Nautical astronomy - 632 pages

Contents

• o 30: 8
• Description and Use of Gunters Scale: 15
• Multiplication by Logarithms: 23
• To find the Logarithm of the Sines Tangents and Secants answering: 29
• Introduction to the Art of Navigation: 46
• Abbreviations: 54
• Traverse Sailing: 69
• Middle Latitude Şailing: 81
• Mercators Sailing: 95
• Of Winds: 126
• Of Tides: 133
• Of the LorLine and HalfMinute Glass: 147
• Description and Use of Hadleys Quadrant and Sextant: 151
• To observe the Angular Distance between the Sun and Moon: 160
• Projection of the Plane Scales 12 Parallax and Refraction: 162
• To work an Observation or to find the Latitude of a Place by: 164
• The Variation of the Compass: 171
• The Method of Keeping a ships Reckoning at: 207
• Rules for correcting the Dead Reckoning: 223
• To find the Latitude by the Meridian Altitude of a Planet: 244
• Horizontal view of the instrument: 251
• To find the Apparent Time and thereby regulate the Going of the rohia: 252
• Another Method of finding the Apparent Time: 259
• The necessary Preparations for working the Lunar Observations 9dt to: 265
• Examples bois DSM Moving use of 2 to noi 273 I: 274
• To find the Suns true Altitude: 283
• To find the Longitude by a Chronometer or Timekeepersonit me 11289: 290
• Use of the Reflecting Circle: 296
• Manner of Surveying Sea Coasts and Harbours in 29: 307
• Of the Curvature of the Earth: 315
• The Method of Exereising Ships Companies for: 364
• On Preparing for Exercise or Action: 372
• On Ships in Distress T no intorno 2983791: 383
• Explanation and Use of the Tables Mon 2390: 390
• Right Ascension of the Sun XVIIIT: 396
• For finding the Distance of Objects at Sea tb XXIX: 404
• Journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira and Teneriffe: 56
• Proportional Logarithms For computing the Effects of Parallax on the Moons Distance from 911 XXXVI: xxxvi

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Practical Navigator: Being a Complete Epitome of Navigation: to which are Added, All the Tables Requisite for Determining the Latitude and Longitude at Sea ; Containing the Different Kinds of Sailing, and Necessary Corrections for Lee-way, Variation, &c. Exemplified in a Journal at Sea ...
• Author: John Hamilton Moore
• Editor: Joseph Foss Dessiou
• Edition: 20
• Publisher: T. Cadell, 1828
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 12, 2009
• Length: 632 pages