Zaccheus Brown notebook 1782-1783, 1789 Brown, Zaccheus notebook

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Zaccheus Brown notebook 1782-1783, 1789 Brown, Zaccheus notebook

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The Zaccheus Brown notebook contains information compiled between 1782 and 1783 on arithmetic, sailing and navigation, and surveying, as well as a log of the 's voyage from New Jersey to the Virgin Islands in 1789. Mathematical and navigational problems are often illustrated with diagrams, and the volume also contains an example of a Mercator chart of the Caribbean. Phoenix

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William L. Clements Library

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Zaccheus Brown compiled notes about arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, and navigation in this volume from 1782-1783. From June-September 1789, he was a passenger on the Phoenix, which sailed from Salem, New Jersey, to St. Thomas and then to Virginia. In 1789, his sister lived in Alloways Creek, New Jersey. From the guide to the Zaccheus Brown notebook, Brown, Zaccheus notebook, 1782-1783, 1789, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan) ...

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