Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Burndy Library. dnr DSI
2. Hanford Collection.

Description

1. viii, [3], 12-336, 184 p., 10 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative title

1. Maury's navigation.

Subject

1. Navigation
2. Mathematics
3. Nautical astronomy

Call number

1. VXF (Maury, M. F. New theoretical and practical treatise on navigation)

Note

1. Spine title: Maury's navigation.
2. Edition statement from Preface to the third edition, p. [vi].
3. Tables XIX and XX and Index (p. [297]-336) are bound after Tables I-XVIII (184 p. inserted after p. [296]).
4. Pasted inside front cover: General order, Navy Department. Maury's Navigation is hereby adopted as the textbook of the Navy ...
5. Includes index.

Author

1. Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873.

Title

1. A new theoretical and practical treatise on navigation : in which the auxiliary branches of mathematics and astronomy ... are treated of : also the theory and most simple methods of finding time, latitude and longitude ... / by M.F. Maury ...

Imprint

1. Philadelphia : E.C. & J. Biddle ..., c1845.

Edition

1. Third edition.

Added author

1. Burndy Library. Donor DSI
2. Hanford Collection.

Added title

1. Maury's navigation.

Research call number

1. VXF (Maury, M. F. New theoretical and practical treatise on navigation)