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Parker's projection of the longitude at sea: whereby the mariners may be enabled to correct their accounts thereof, as often as they shall have the benefit of a clear sky and calm sea, at the time of the moon's visible southing. ... By Benjamin Parker

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1731.
Call number: 293138
Creator: Parker, Benjamin (-1747)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
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