The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea : illustrated by proper rules and examples : the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced : also, the demonstration of the usual rules of trigonometry; problems in mensuration, surveying, and gauging; dictionary of sea terms; and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea : with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars; rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses, occultations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838