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Hodgson, James The Theory of Navigation Demonstrated: And Its Rudiments Clearly and Plainly Proved, from the First and Most Simple Principles of the Mathematicks
London I. Dawks 1706 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Brown leather binding shows wear. Copies of this book are locatred in the University of Alberta, Cambridge University, and the Edinburgh University Library according to WorldCat Acession No: OCLC: 48900597. James Hodgson lived in England from 1672-1755. He was master of the Royal mathematical School in Christ-hospital in London, and was a member of the Royal Society. In addition to mathematics, he wrote books on navigation (this one), chronology, annuities and astronomy. This book has four parts. Part I Section 1 is Geometrical Definitions, Section 2 is Trigonometry, Sec. 3 is seven cases of right-angled plain tainagles, Part II Navigation with 10 sections , Part III Of the Projection of the Sphere as section 1, Of Spherical Trignometry as section II, section III solution if the 16 cases of Right angled spherical triangles, Section IV solutions of the 12 cases of oblique angled spherical triangles, Section V Stereographical problems with cases, Part IV Application of the Projection of the Sphere and doctrine of Spherical triangles to the solution of such Astronomical problems as are useful in Navigation with Sections, cases, and problems, A Table of the Suns true Place (Solar Tables for the years 1705, 1706, 1707, 1708), Methods for determining the latitude of places, The Variations of the compass, A table of logarithms, and a Triangular Canon of Sines, Tangents, and Secants. Very rare. ; Tables and charts; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 354 pages
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