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Author Norwood, Matthew.
Title The seaman's companion : being a plain guide to the understanding of arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy. Applied chiefly to navigation: and furnished with a table of meridional parts, to every third minute: with excellent and easie ways of keeping a reckoning at sea, never in print before. Also, a catalogue of the longitude and latitude of the principal places in the world with other useful things. The third edition corrected and amended. By Matthew Norwood, mariner.
Alternative Title Table of meridional parts.
Publication Info London : [print]ed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate near Tower-Hill; Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head and Ralph Smith, at the Bible in Cornhill; Thomas Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Richard Northcot, next St. Peter's-Alley in Cornhill, and at the Anchor and Mariner, on Fishstreet-Hill. [1678]



Descript [10], 203, [1] p., [1] leaf of folding plate : ill., tables
Note With a table of contents.
Divisional title on p. 147: A table of meridional parts.
Reproduction of the original at the Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
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Author Norwood, Matthew.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Longitude -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Table of meridional parts.
Descript [10], 203, [1] p., [1] leaf of folding plate : ill., tables
Note With a table of contents.
Divisional title on p. 147: A table of meridional parts.
Reproduction of the original at the Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
Author Norwood, Matthew.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Longitude -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Table of meridional parts.

Subject Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Longitude -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [10], 203, [1] p., [1] leaf of folding plate : ill., tables
Note With a table of contents.
Divisional title on p. 147: A table of meridional parts.
Reproduction of the original at the Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

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