Elementary Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Navigator. To either of these works the present book might serve as an introduction. Most of the examples have been worked by means of Bowditch's Useful Tables, published by the United States Government. The corrections to Mid dle Latitude have been taken from the table (pages 172, 173) prepared by the author. References to Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by the author and to Elements of Geometry by Phillips and Fisher are indicated by (trig) and (p. And F.) respectively.