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LE Colson, Nathaniel
The Mariners New Kalendar
London, 1749. Lewis Evans Collection
[1924-0]
1749
U (Stack)Colson, Nathaniel
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-Ascension: Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars: Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places: A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also The Description and Use of the Sea-Quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal: Necessary Problems in Plane-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale: A Tide Table: The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, etc. And the Soundings at coming into the Channel: With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematics. The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the New Stile, By William Mountaine, F.R.S.; London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son, on Tower-Hill, 1757. Where you may have all Sorts of Mathematical Books. University Observatory Collection.
[1982-93]
1757