Norwood's system of navigation : teaching the whole art in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath hitherto been done : shewing, the projection of the plain scale, the sphere in plaino, astronomical problems useful in navigation, traverse tables, right lin'd triangles, geometrically, by tables of sines, tangents, logarithms, and by Gunter's ruler, applied to plain and Mercator's sailing : illustrated by schemes on copper-plates ... : the description and use of a new instrument, called encyclologium, or the sliding circles, which, with ease, resolves all questions of proportion, trigonometry, arithmetick, square and cube root, gunnery, mensuration, and dyalling / by Matthew Norwood.
| Author/creator | Norwood, Matthew |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for H. Sawbridge, T. Wall, T. Guy, T. Parkhurst, J. Robinson, H. White, T. Malthus, and C. Conyers, 1685. |
| Description | [16], 384, 11, [62], [93], 47 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240889442 |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | System of navigation |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Includes: Of gunnery : so much of that art is absolutely necessary for a sea-man to know, on p. 369-384. |
| General note | Includes: The use of the tables of logarithms, on p. 1-11 (third sequence). |
| General note | "A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes, for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 1000. London : Printed by John Gain, 1685" on [62] p. has special t.p. |
| General note | "A triangular canon logarithmical, or A table of artificial sines, tangents, and the complements arithmetical of sines ... London : Printed by J. Gain in Upper Moor-Fields, next door but one to the Flying Horse, 1685" on [93] p. has special t.p. |
| General note | Includes: Encyclologium, or, The sliding circles, on 47 p. at end. |
| General note | Advertisement: p. [16] at beginning. |
| General note | "Arrata" [sic] on p. 47 at end. |
| General note | Imperfect: stained and with print show-through. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.), N1346 variant |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2942:3) |
| Contains title | Of gunnery. |
| Contains title | Use of the tables of logarithms. |
| Contains title | Table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes. |
| Contains title | Triangular canon logarithmical. |
| Contains title | Table of artificial sines, tangents, and the complements arithmetical of sines. |
| Contains title | Encyclologium. |
| Contains title | Sliding circles. |
| Stock number | CL0037000131 ProQuest, 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |
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