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England's safety: or, A bridle to the French King
Proposing a sure method for encouraging navigation, and raising qualified seamen for the well manning Their Majesties fleet on any occasion, ... a competent provision for all such as shall be wounded in service against the enemy, either in their Majesties ships of war, privatiers, or merchant-men, for the better encouraging and defending them. Also an in-fight into the advantages may be made by the herring and other fisheries, in respect to the breeding of seamen, and otherwise. Together with a proposal for the maintenance and education of the male children of all such as shall be kill'd in service, both seamen and officers; and a provision for gentlemens younger sons, and the sons of commanders kill'd in the service, to qualifie them for the sea, in order to make officers. ... By Captain George St. Lo -
Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art
containing many useful and geometrical definitions and problems; the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles; plain Mercator, and great-circle sailing; sundry useful problems in astronomy; the use of instruments; the azimuth-compass, ring-dial, variation-compass; the fore-staff, quadrant, plough, and nocturnal; the plain scale, Gunter's scale, sinical quadrant, plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, the inclinatory-needle, and virtues of the loadstone. Useful tables of the moon's age, of the tides, of the sun's place, declination, and right-ascension; of the stars right-ascension and declination; the latitude and longitude of places; and a table of meridional parts : likewise a new traverse-table, and the use thereof in keeping a reckoning at sea : also a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the log. sines, tangents, and secants -
Navigation in coasting, or, The sea-mans instructer
containing severall theoreticall and practicall parts of that art, as also, some necessary points of the duty of a carefull sea-man : most pleasant and profitable for all young beginners, for whom it is designed