Online Resouces: Collections and Research

• Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Explanation of Tables
  • Introduction
  • Decimal Arithmetic
  • Logarithmical Arithmetic
  • Practical Geometry - Definitions - Problems
  • Description and Use of Gunter's Scales - Of the common Gunter - Of the sliding Gunter
  • Description and Use of the Sector
  • Plane Trigonometry - Right-Angled Trigonometry - Oblique-Angled Trigonometry
  • Geography - Of the Figure and Magnitude of the Earth - Of the natural Divisions of the Earth - Of the Imaginary Divisions of the Earth - Of Latitude and Longitude
  • Description and Use of the Log, Half-Minute Glass and Compass - Of the Log and Half-Minute Glass - Of the Mariner's Compass
  • Plane Sailing
  • Traverse Sailing
  • Parallel Sailing
  • Middle Latitude Sailing
  • Mercator's Sailing
  • Oblique Sailing
  • Current Sailing
  • Description and Use of Charts - Of Plane Charts - Of Mercator's Charts - Use of Mercator's Charts
  • Maritime Surveying
  • Astronomy - Of the Solar System - Of the Sphere - Of the Diameter of the Sun, Moon, &c. - Depression or Dip of the Horizon - Refraction - Parallax
  • Winds
  • Tides - Methods of Finding the Time of High Water
  • Description and Use of Hadley's Quadrant - Adjustments of the Quadrant - Use of the Quadrant
  • Of Finding the Latitude by Observation - To Find the Latitude by a Meridian Altitude of the Sun - To Find the Latitude by a Meridian Altitude of a Star
  • Variation of the Compass - Description of the Azimuth Compass - Use of the Aximuth Compass - To find the Variation by an Amplitude - To Find the Variation by an Azimuth - To Find the true Azimuth by Another Method
  • Description and Use of Hadley's Sextent - Adjustments of the Sextant - Use of the Sextant
  • Description and Use of the Artificial Horizon
  • Of Finding the Longitude by Observation - Method of Taking a Lunar Observaton - To Find the Apparent Time by an Altitude of the Sun - To Find the Apparent Time by an Altitude of a Star - To Find the Error of a Watch by Equal Altitudes of the Sun
  • To Find the Longitude by Lunar Obervations - To Find the Apparent Altitude of the Sun, Moon, or a Star
  • To Find the Longitude by Chronometers or Time-Keepers - To Find The Rate of a Chronometer of Time-Keeper
  • Method of Keeping a Journal at Sea - To Correct the Courses Steered by Compass - Rules for Correcting the Dead Reckoning - General Rules for Working a Day's Work - Examples of Day's Works
  • Journal of a Voyage from England to Madeira
  • Form of a Navy Log
  • Form of an East India Journal
  • Explanation of Sea Terms
  • Examination of a Young Sea Officer
  • Tables
  • Directions and Tables
  • Elements of Geometry
  • Mathematical Geometry

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