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Acc. 4276

Ref: MUS/523

Reference: [GB 0212] MUS/523
Date(s): 1834-1856 approx.
Level: Fonds
Extent: 1 item
Scope and content: Navigation and Nautical Astronomy exercises book.

Cloth-bound book belonging to Lewis Davies of Cardigan, inscribed 'Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. Began this Copy October 12th 1834'.
Contains sections on (inter alia):
- Practical Geometry Problems
- Plane Trigonometry
- Plane Sailing
- Middle Latitude Sailing
- Oblique Sailing
- Current Sailing
- To find the time of high water at any Place on any given day of the Moon's Age
- To Find the Latitude by A Meridian Altitude of a Star
- To find the Variation of the Compass by An Azimuth
- On Finding the Longitude By Lunar Observations
and other subjects. The main section ends with a Journal of a voyage from England to Madeira in the ship Britannia in 1854. With diagrams and watercolour illustrations. Some water damage, also damage to spine.