A friend to navigation plainely expressing to the capacity of the simpler so[rt] the whole misery or foundation of the same art for whose sake, the author hath onely penned this treatise, being himselfe a faithfull good willer thereto.
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- A friend to navigation plainely expressing to the capacity of the simpler so[rt] the whole misery or foundation of the same art for whose sake, the author hath onely penned this treatise, being himselfe a faithfull good willer thereto.
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- Skay, John.
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- Printed at London :: By T.C[otes],
- 1628.
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Contents
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TO ALL THE MOST NOBLE AND GE∣NEROVS SEAMEN of
England, happinesse inthis life, and eternally in the Heauens. - To the Ignorant and Honest Reader.
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A FRIEND OF
NAVIGATJON. -
CHAP. I. Of the Cosmgraphicall discription of the World. -
CHAP. II. Of the measure of the heauens -
C Of the Elements.AP. III. -
CAHP. IIII. The gound of the Art, the Instrument, Astronomycall propositions, with the Geographicall and Hidrographicall description of the Earth and Sea. -
CHAP. V. Of certaine considerations to be remembred, briefly set downe. -
CHAP. VI. Of Shipping and going out of the Harbor. -
CAHP. VII. Of the Iournall, obseruation, and proiection. -
Propositions of Nauigation, Arethmetically, Geometrically, and Instrumentally shewed. Chap.
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1. To finde the leagues run on any course, the difference of Latitude and course being giuen. -
2 The difference of Latitude and Longitude giuen to finde the leagues run. -
3 To finde the difference of Longitude, the course and difference of Latitude being giuen. -
4 To finde how many miles off the equator or Me∣ridian is a degree of Longitude in any parralell of Latitude. -
5 To finde the Longitude answering to a Meri∣dian distance in any parralell of Latitude. -
6 To finde the signe of any Arke in any parralell. -
7 By a sine giuen in a parralell, to finde the Arke. -
8 To finde how many miles on Earth or Sea serueth to a minute of time in the Heauen, in any parralell of Latitude.
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Chapter the
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CHAP. X. Of the motion of the Moone, and comming into the Harbour.
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