Excerpt from The Elements of Navigation: Containing the Theory and Practice; With All the Necessary Tables; To Which Is Added, a Treatise of Marine Fortification; For the Use of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital, and the Gentlemen of the Navy, in Two Volumes
The Maritime parts of this worh, contained in the 71th, viith, and lyth hooks, are delivered in a manner fomewhat dzfiheizt from that'of other writers on this fuhjett 1who', for the mo/t. Part; copying from one another, may he, perhaps one rtafon why the art of Nauigation has heen fo little improved within the la]? I 56 years; for excepting what Norwood and Halley have done, the art feems much in the fame fiate iri which Wright left it However, I apprehend that the proper judges will, from the method I have tahen, find fome few improvements, if not in the art itjél at lead in the manner of communicating it to, learners.
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