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 InfoLondon : 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.
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Portion of title System of navigation
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteIncludes: Of gunnery : so much of that art is absolutely necessary for a sea-man to know, on p. 369-384.
General noteIncludes: 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 noteIncludes: Encyclologium, or, The sliding circles, on 47 p. at end.
General noteAdvertisement: p. [16] at beginning.
General note"Arrata" [sic] on p. 47 at end.
General noteImperfect: stained and with print show-through.
General noteReproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library.
References Wing (2nd ed.), N1346 variant
Reproduction noteElectronic 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.
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