The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

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The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.
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Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669.
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock, W. Fisher, E. Thomas, and D. Page ...,
1669.
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"The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61915.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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STƲRMY's MATHEMATICAL AND Practical Arts. The Fifth BOOK. SHEWING A new Way and ART of SƲRVEYING of LAND by the MARINERS AZIMƲTH or AMPLITƲDE-COMPASS; By which you may SƲRVEY and PLOTT with ease and Delight, all manner of Grounds, either small Inclosures, Champions, Plains, Wood Lands, or any other Uneven Grounds. AND ALSO, How to take the Plott of a whole Town; and a most Excel∣lent way to be satisfied whether his Plott will Close, before he be∣gins to Protract the same. ALSO, The ART of GAGEING all sorts of Vessels, as Cube-Vessels; or to Measure Square Vessels, as Cylinder Vessels, and Pipes, Hogsheads, and Barrels: and to Measure Vessels that are part out; And also to Measure Brewers Tuns, or Oval Tuns, or Mash-Fats, or Cone-Vessels, or Brewers Coppers, or any other Vessels. AND LIKEWISE, How to Measure exactly all kind of Plain Superficies, as Walls, Timber Work, Roofs of Houses, Tyling, Board, and Glass, and Wainscot, Pavement, and the like; As also Timber and Stone; And of Measuring of SHIPS. The ART of GƲNNERY, On a new invented Scale, which resolves most Questions in a moment in that ART in a most Excellent Compendious Form, never by any set forth in the like manner before in the ART of GƲNNERY: With divers Excellent Conclusions, all resolved, both Arithmetical and Geometrical and Instrumental and by Tables; Being framed both with, and without the help of Arithmetick; As also divers sorts of Artificial FIRE-WORKS, both for Recreation, and Sea and Land Service. By Capt. SAMƲEL STƲRMY.

LONDON, Printed by William Godbid, Anno Dom. M.DC.LXIX.

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