Publications of Jacob Rowe

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• Rowe, Jacob. Navigation improved: In two books. Book I. Containing an exact description of the fluid quadrant for the latitude; or, Quadrants reduc'd to the utmost degree of portableness: whereby quadrants of a small radius are contriv'd to be equally useful, and as exact as the largest quadrant now in use. By which travellers and others, with these protable instruments, may be able to take any observations, on land or sea, to greater exactness than with the largest quadrant yet invented. Design'd for the further improvement of astronomy, and the correction of table belonging thereto. Of principal use at sea, in finding the latitude of places, when the horizon is any way obscured, to the same exactness as in the clearest weather; and also by the fix'd stars, with the same certainty as by the sun: whereby there will be more frequent opportunities for finding the latitude, when no other instrument can be of service. Book II. An essay on the discovery of the longitude, by a new invention of an everlasting. London : Printed for John Hooke at the Flower-de-Luce over-against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-Street. 1725. ESTC No. T153599. Grub Street ID 197887.
• Rowe, Jacob. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved. Wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills. This method being found good in practice, by the trial of a coach and cart already made, shews of what great advantage it may be to all farmers, carriers, masons, miners, &c. and to the publick in general, by saving them one half of the expences they are now at in the draught of these vehicles, according to the common method. The whole illustrated with copper plates. And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method, by Jacob Rowe, Esq;. London : printed for Alexander Lyon under Tom's Coffee-house in Russel-Street Covent Garden, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]. ESTC No. T95742. Grub Street ID 315240.