The advancement of the art of navigation in two parts: the first, shewing by a new canon of sines, tangents, and secants, how to resolve all cases of right-lined triangles, onely by looking into the tables, without any calculation. Particularly applied to all the three kinds of sailing: viz. By the plain chart, by Mercaters chart, by a great circle, and to the art of surveying. The second part, shewing several observations, for the better odering of the log-line, and for the more exact and ready measuring, not onely of minutes, but seconds of time, with some new experiments and engines for the more constant finding of a ships way. By Henry Philippes.

People / Organizations

• George Hulock ("printed for")
• Henry Phillippes (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by R. & W. Leybourn for George Hulock, and are to be sold at his Shop, at Magnus Church corner, 1657.

Added name

Phillippes, Henry, d. 1677?. The seaman's canon of triangles. Phillippes, Henry, d. 1677?. Brief canon of triangles.

Publication year

1657

ESTC No.

R6366

Grub Street ID

126715

Description

[14], 136 [130], 39, [1] p. ; 4⁰

Note

2d part has special t.p.

Inserted between the first and second parts is possibly a first edition of another work of Phillippes consisting of two parts which was published separately in 1708. The first part: The seaman's canon of triangles, London, 1657. The second part: A brief canon of triangles, London, 1657.