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- catalog contributor b9732045.
- catalog created "[1740?]".
- catalog date "1740".
- catalog date "[1740?]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1740?]".
- catalog description "With: A geographical description of the coasts, harbours and sea ports of the Spanish West Indies / Domingo Gonzalez Carranza. London : Printed for the editor, C. Smith, 1740.".
- catalog extent "24 p. [1] fold. leaf of plate ;".
- catalog issued "1740".
- catalog issued "[1740?]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : To be had of the inventor,".
- catalog subject "Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)".
- catalog subject "VK583. .S65 1740".
- catalog title "The description. use and excellency of a new instrument, or sea quadrant, invented / by Caleb Smith, for taking altitudes of the sun, moon, and stars, from the visible horizon (as well as any other angular distances at land or sea) without impediment or interruption from the ship's motion : whereby the latitude at sea may be obtained with greater certainty, and more frequently, than by Davi's or any other of the common instruments ... To which is added, an essay to make this quadrant serviceable at sea, as well as land, when there is no horizon to be seen. As also the usefulness of its application to an azimuth compass of a new contrivance for discovering the variation of the magnetic needle, at sea, without any astronomical calculation.".
- catalog type "text".