NEWHOUSE, Daniel. The Art of Sailing by the Logarithms, or artificial sines and tangents. Being the most exact way of working all sorts of traverses, and keeping a reckoning at sea. The whole being practically and very intelligibly laid down, with necessary questions in astronomy. Being the second part of the whole art of navigation, London: for Richard Mount, 1701. 4, part II only, diagrams, table of logarithms (light spotting or light marginal thumb-soiling, tables browned), contemporary red morocco, richly decorated in gilt (small scuff mark on front cover, extremities rubbed), g.e.

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NEWHOUSE, Daniel. The Art of Sailing by the Logarithms, or artificial sines and tangents. Being the most exact way of working all sorts of traverses, and keeping a reckoning at sea. The whole being practically and very intelligibly laid down, with necessary questions in astronomy. Being the second part of the whole art of navigation, London: for Richard Mount, 1701. 4, part II only, diagrams, table of logarithms (light spotting or light marginal thumb-soiling, tables browned), contemporary red morocco, richly decorated in gilt (small scuff mark on front cover, extremities rubbed), g.e.

First published in 1685. This is part II only of Newhouse's The Whole Art of Navigation. The unnumbered leaves at the end of this book contain James Atkinson's A Triangular Canon Logarithmical: or a table of artificial sines, tangents and secants.

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