Treatise on Navigation, and Nautical Astronomy: Adapted to Practice, and to the Purposes of Elementary Instruction; With an Extensive Series of Examples for Exercise, and All the Tables Requisite for Nautical Computations (Classic Reprint)

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IN the work of which a fifth edition is now offered to the public, it has been attempted to furnish, in a moderate compass, a mathematical course adapted at once to the instruction of youth destined for the sea service - to the every-day wants of the practical mariner - and to the more extended views of those who aspire not only to an acquaintance with Navigation as an art, but to a knowledge of its principles as a branch of science. Few persons have been extensively employed in teaching Navigation who have not felt the want of some such book; a want which will now be more extensively felt than heretofore, from the establishment of boards in all the principal seaports for the ex amination of masters and mates in the theory and the practice of their profession.

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