Elements of navigation: containing all necessary instruction for keeping a ship's reckoning with the most approved methods of finding the latitude and longitude by observation, ca. 1809

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Elements of navigation: containing all necessary instruction for keeping a ship's reckoning with the most approved methods of finding the latitude and longitude by observation, ca. 1809

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Bound holograph navigational manual including lessons and exercises in geometry, geography, methods of sailing, maritime surveying, and astronomy. Illustrated with six plates, including two maps, one being of the North Atlantic coast of South America. Also includes an 18 page "Journal of a Voyage from England to Gibraltar in the ship Brittania kept by R. M. Wilson commencing Sept. 10th 1809". This text likely written by Robert Morison Wilson.

1 v. ([335] p.): ill.; 25 cm. + 2 maps.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Witt, Mario e Fiammetta

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Wilson, Robert, 1793-1856

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Businessman, soldier in the Republic of Texas army, and congressman, of Harrisburg, Tex. From the description of Robert Wilson collection, 1835-1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70956436 English seaman, son of Lt. James Wilson, R. N. of Brixham, Devon,who was the author of "A dissertation on the rise and progress of the modern navigation". From the description of Elements of navigation: containing all necessary instruction for keeping a ship's reckoning with t...

Wilson, James, M.D., of London.

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Brittania (Brigantine)

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