The mariner's mirror; or, a new treatise on navigation, in theory and practice. Part I. Contains the principles of navigation, in a Method more universal than any extant, including the fundamental Theorems of Nautical Astronomy; Correction of the Lunar Parallax; Tables of Meridional Parts adapted to the Figure of the Earth; with a new Construction of several Nautical Scales, and other Instruments. Part II. A Method of Finding the Longitude of a Ship at Sea; and The Place and Latitude of the Moon by Interpolation. Part III. A System of Logarithms in all the different Kinds, with their Applications; illustrated by the Logistic Curve at large; with the Construction and Delineation of all the Logarithmic Lines and Scales. Part IV. The young trigonometer's new guide; with Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained. Illustrated with eight copper-plates. By Benjamin Martin.
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- Imprint
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London: printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53. Fleet-Street, [1782]
- Publication year
- 1782-1782
- ESTC No.
- T122824
- Grub Street ID
- 173396
- Description
- viii,[2],61[i.e.65],[1];32;viii,54;[3],vi-viii,[4],70p.,plates ; 8⁰
- Note
- Parts II-IV have separate titlepages, dated 1782, bearing the imprint : "Sold by Robert Sayer and John Bennett", and separate pagination and register.
Part I is a reissue of the 1768 edition with a new titlepage and part titlepage.
Part II is a reissue of the 1769 edition with a new titlepage.
Part III is a reissue of the 1772 edition with a new titlepage.