The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation : Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nautical Almanac, in Determining the Latitutde, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations : and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea : the Whole Exemplified in a Journal, Kept from Boston to Madeira : with an Appendix Containg Methods of Calculating Ex\clipses of the Sun and Moon, and Occultations of the Fixed Stars |
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| Title | The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation : Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nautical Almanac, in Determining the Latitutde, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations : and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea : the Whole Exemplified in a Journal ... |
| Author | Nathaniel Bowditch |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | E. M. blunt, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 617 pages |
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