Daniel Newhouse, The Whole Art of Navigation (1685)

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Date
1685
Author
Book title
The Whole Art of Navigation; In Five Books. Containing I. The Principles of Navigation and Geometry. II. The Principles of Astronomy. III. The Practical Part of Navigation. IV. The Description and Use of such Instruments, as are useful in taking Observations at Sea, and therein, the Use of a large new Sinical Quadrant, performing with more exactness than any yet extant, all Questions relating to Navigation; rendered so easie as to be understood by the meanest Capacity. V. Useful Tables in Navigation, wherein those of the Suns and Stars Declination and Right Ascension, &c. are newly Calculated. The whole delivered in a very easie and familair Stile, by way of Dialogue between a Tutor and his Scholar; approved by the ablest Mathematicans
Publication place
London
Printer
T. Passinger
Publisher
Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Summary
Definitions but no glossary
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: WHAT do you mean by the Cycle of the Sun?
T. The Cycle Solar is a Revolution of 28 Years, which being ended begins again at the Unit, because the Dominical Letter, is then in the same order that it was at first.
S. How do you find out the just number of the Cycle of the Sun?
T. I find it by adding 9 to the proposed Year, and dividing it by 28, for the Remainder of the Division is the Cycle of the Sun; but if there remaineth nothing, the Cycle Solar will be 28. (p. 14)
Wing
N920
Catalog
  • Craig 4
Other editions
1686: Wing N921;
1698: Wing N922