the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass upon which they rise and set: With Tables of Amplitudes
and Declination. Which Tables of Sun-Dials, Semidiurnal Arches and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees
of Latitude, either North or South. With a Description of the most useful Instruments in Practice in the Art of Navigation.
Also, a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. By Andrew Wakely, Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful Additions, by J. Atkinson, the Whole revised, corrected, improved and enlarged, with new Tables and Examples, by John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics, and Author of the Young Sea Officer’s Assistant.
London: Printed for
Mount and Page, on Tower-hill; where may be had all Sorts of Sea-Books, Charts, &c.,
1787.
12mo. 136 leaves, woodcut illustrations; a list of books of Navigation, Sea Charts, &c. printed for
Mount and Page on the verso of the title-leaf, and an Advertisement at the end of
“To the Reader”, following which is John Adams’s address “To the Mariners of Great-Britain” dated from Edmonton,
August 24, 1787.
Not in Lowndes.
This edition not in Watt, and not in Sotheran.
Jefferson mentioned this book in his letter to Melatiah Nash concerning his forthcoming
Ephemeris
, dated from Monticello, November 15, 1811. Suggesting the addition of a table for the calculation of the sun’s rise, Jefferson
wrote: “
. . . this table is to be found in many astronomical books, as, for instance, in Wakeley’s Mariner’s compass rectified, and
more accurately in the
Connoissance des tems for 1788. it would not occupy more than two pages at the end of the work & would render it an Almanac for every part of the
US . . .
”
Andrew Wakely published the first edition of this work in 1665. At the end is a
Table containing the Chief Harbours, Headlands and Islands of the World, and shewing their Latitude and Longitude, several pages of which refer to America; the last three pages are calculated from observations made by W. Wales and W. Bayly,
astronomers accompanying Captain Cook on his voyages.
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Sturmey’s Mariner’s magazine.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 34, as above, with
fol, p.
STURMY,
Samuel.
The Mariners magazine, stor’d with these mathematical Arts; the rudiments of Navigation and Geometry. The making and use of
divers mathematical instruments. The doctrine of Triangles . . . The art of Navigation . . . With tables of Logarithms, and
. . . a Compendium of Fortification . . . The
Third Edition . . . corrected by J. Colson.
London,
1684.
2 parts in 1, folio. No copy of this edition was available for collation; the above title was taken from the British Museum
Catalogue.
Lowndes V, 2542.
Not in Hazlitt.
Watt II, 887.
Not in Lalande.
Not in Houzeau.
Not in Arber,
Term Catalogues.
STS S6098.
Captain Samuel Sturmy, b. circa 1633, published the first edition of this work in 1669. This edition was edited by John Colson, and the
Compendium of Fortification contributed by P. Staynred. According to Granger (
Biographical History, 1824, Vol. V, page 280) Goldsmith’s
History of the Earth
contains an account of Sturmy’s descent into a cavern at Pen-park, Gloucestershire, from which he caught a fever and died
soon after.
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