Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator

containing, practical geometry, plain and spheric, superficial and solid; with its uses in all kinds of mensuration. Trigonometry, plain and spheric, both geometric, instrumental, and logarithmic; with its uses in navigation, viz. In plain, Mercator's, and great circle-sailing, geography, astronomy, the projection of the sphere, &c. The Gregorian or new calendar, description and use of the plain-chart, Mercator's chart, both globes, hemispheres, and divers other instruments. A new form of keeping a sea-reckoning, or account of a ship's way. A traverse-table; a table of meridional parts; a table of 10,000 logarithms, and logarithmic sines, tangents and secants, carefully corrected

by James Atkinson

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