Author: COLSON (Nathaniel):
Title: The Mariner's New Calendar. Containing The Principles of Arithmetic and Practical Geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with Exact Tables of the Sun's place, Declination, and Right-Scension.... Also The Use of the Sea-Quadrant...With Directions for sailing into some Principal Habours. The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the New Stil, By William Mountaine, F. R. S.
Description: London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page and Son..., 1756. Small 4to, 190 x 150 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 136, with separate title-page for Table of Difference, 2 blank leaves at beginning of text, contemporary limp calf; with annotations and scribbles on the blank leaves, annotations in many places, apparently made by an able seaman to accord with the ship that he was crewing, rather worn and affected by sea-water, but a very good example of a technical manual that was clearly used. The first edition of this work appears to have been published in 1676, and there were at least another 38 editions published in the 18th century.

Keywords: calendar mathematics prose


See more books from our catalog: Calendar