The mariner's jewel:. or, a pocket companion for the ingenious. Containing decimal arithmetick; extraction of the square root; to know the burthen, and how to rig a ship; with an Easy and Exact Method for all Gunners, Carpenters, and Boatswanes, whereby to know the Expence of their Stores every Month, and what they have Remaining; with Proper Directions for making of Masts and Yards according to Proportion; With a new List of the Royal Navy; A General Pay-Table for all Degrees of Men; An Abstract of Parliament for the Encouragement of Seamen, with Her Majesty's Approbation hereto; A Guide for Pursers and Stewards; The most usual Terms at Sea explain'd, with Directions how to work a Ship at Sea; And a Compendium of Sea-Gunnery; With several other things needful to be understood by all Sorts of Sea-Faring Men. By James Love, Mathematician.
Love, James (Mathematician)
Category
Books
Date
1724
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3226252
Summary
Bibliographic description
The sixth edition, corrected & enlarged.. 164,[4]p. :. ill. ;. 12mo. Provenance: inscribed "W. Windham ejus liber 1733". Binding: eighteenth-century sheep, sewn onto two recessed bands; double blind fillets on boards.
Makers and roles
Love, James (Mathematician)