Author: Thomas Kerigan
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables
Author: Thomas Kerigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables
Author: Thomas Kerigan
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Vol. 2 Of 2
Author: Thomas Kerigan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528514675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Excerpt from The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Vol. 2 of 2: Including Every Table Required With the Nautical Almanac in Finding the Latitude and Longitude; With an Explanation of Their Construction, Use, and Application to Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Trigonometry, Dialling, Gunnery, Etc., Etc XLVII. Time from noon when the sun's centre is in the prime vertical; being the instant at which the altitude of that object should be observed, in order to ascertain the ap parent time with the greatest accuracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528514675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Excerpt from The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Vol. 2 of 2: Including Every Table Required With the Nautical Almanac in Finding the Latitude and Longitude; With an Explanation of Their Construction, Use, and Application to Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Trigonometry, Dialling, Gunnery, Etc., Etc XLVII. Time from noon when the sun's centre is in the prime vertical; being the instant at which the altitude of that object should be observed, in order to ascertain the ap parent time with the greatest accuracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Including Every Table Required With the Nautical Almanac in Finding the Latitude and Longitude, Vol. 1 of 2
Author: Thomas Kerigan
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282631710
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Excerpt from The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Including Every Table Required With the Nautical Almanac in Finding the Latitude and Longitude, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Explanation of Their Construction, Use, and Application to Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Trigonometry, Dialling, Gunnery, Etc. Etc Table XIX. Is fully adapted to the reduction of the true altitudes of the heavenly bodies, obtained by calculation, to their apparent central altitudes: the reductions of altitude may be very readily taken out to the decimal part of a second. This table will be found of considerable utility in deducing the longitude from the lunar observations, when the distance only has been observed. Table XX. Is new; and by its means the operation of reducing the apparent central distance between the moon and sun, a fixed star, or planet, to the true central distance, is very much abridged, as will appear evident by referring to Method I., vol. I., page 481, where the true central distance is found by the simple addition of five natural versed sines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282631710
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Excerpt from The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Including Every Table Required With the Nautical Almanac in Finding the Latitude and Longitude, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Explanation of Their Construction, Use, and Application to Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, Trigonometry, Dialling, Gunnery, Etc. Etc Table XIX. Is fully adapted to the reduction of the true altitudes of the heavenly bodies, obtained by calculation, to their apparent central altitudes: the reductions of altitude may be very readily taken out to the decimal part of a second. This table will be found of considerable utility in deducing the longitude from the lunar observations, when the distance only has been observed. Table XX. Is new; and by its means the operation of reducing the apparent central distance between the moon and sun, a fixed star, or planet, to the true central distance, is very much abridged, as will appear evident by referring to Method I., vol. I., page 481, where the true central distance is found by the simple addition of five natural versed sines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables
Author: Thomas Kerigan
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Languages : en
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The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables, Etc
Author: Thomas KERIGAN
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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The Crone Library: Books on the Art of Navigation Left by Dr. Ernst Crone to the Scheepvaart Museum in 1975 and Books on the Same Subject Acquired by the Museum Previously
Author: Hubert J M W Peters
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004616268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
More than 1220 entries elaborately described; five different indexes.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004616268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
More than 1220 entries elaborately described; five different indexes.
A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Reports, Field Books, Memoirs, Maps, Etc., of the Indian Surveys
Author: Great Britain. India Office
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan Grier
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.