Navigation notebook, [ca. 1721].

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Navigation notebook, [ca. 1721].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/479978543

The collection consists of a single hand-lettered volume of mathematical algorithms for navigation and astronomical tables, including a chart with a rotating paper dial for calculating "full sea" and one for calculating dominical letters (an aid to determining Sundays in any particular year, and especially the date of Easter) from 1705-1735.

1 v. (172 p.)

New-York Historical Society Library

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The Naval History Society was established in New York in 1912 "for the purpose of publishing and preserving manuscripts, documents, and writings relating to our naval history, naval art and science, and the surroundings and experiences of seamen in general and of American seamen in particular." Its Collections began with the donation in 1915 of John Sanford Barnes's personal collections by his son, Col. James Barnes. These included library materials now cataloged in the XN classification in the ...