Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669
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- The mariners magazine. -
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- The mariner's magazine; or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. Containing, the description and use of the scale of scales; it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions: and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators. The art of navigation ... with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places round the world ... Together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation, in working a ship in all weathers and conditions at sea. A new way of surveying of land, by the mariners azimuth or amplitude compass ... The art of gauging all sorts of vessels; and the measuring of timber, glass, board, stone, walls, ceilings, and tylings. The art of gunnery ... Astronomy, geometrical, instrumental, and by calculation. The art of dialling by a gnomonical scale ... Whereunto is annexed, an abridgement of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation. Also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally.
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- Canon triangulorum logarithmicus. -
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