COLLIER, JOHN - Compendium Artis Nauticae. Being the daily practice of the whole art of navigation ... by tabular inspection: without the operation of plain and spherical trigonometry ...
London, Sold by J. Harbin [etc.],, 1729, First Edition. Hard Cover, 22 cm. xx, 324 p,[8], 111, [1] Pp. ill. (diags.). Very Good/No Jacket.¶ Practical navigation with complex trigonometric problems solved and the solutions presented in chart form. William Whiston, identified as formerly Professor of Mathemnatics University of Cambridge, writes that he has examined the text and found that the results given within are better and clearer than by any other method he knows. ESTC, T113303, OCLC: 16206863 in the USA, [CLU, only] but there are copies at BL, Edinburgh; Aberdeen, and the Natl. Lib. Of Scotld. Many libraries have it on microfilm.Bound in old calf, rebacked. A little watermarked on a few pages at the rear, a little foxed, OW VG..
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