Remainder | containing a fundamental problem in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compass of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measures. Also, an exact method or form of keeping a reckoning at sea in any kind or manner of sailing. With certain tables and other rules useful in navigation: as also plotting and surveying of places: the latitude of the principal places in England: the finding of currents at sea, and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks |
Publisher | printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate, near Tower-Hill, T. Passenger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, R. Boulter at the Turks-Head, and R. Smith at the Bible in Cornhill |