The Projection and Calculation of the Sphere for Young Sea Officers

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Excerpt from The Projection and Calculation of the Sphere for Young Sea Officers: Being a Complete Initiation Into Nautical Astronomy Spheric Trigonometry is so little understood by those who are not professionally mathematicians, while the subject is so important to a maritime nation, that the question whether there be not defect in the present mode of educating nautical men demands earnest attention. For more than a century the method of teaching what is called the "Art of Navigation" has been gradually changing, and the knowledge of principles has in England been consequently decreasing, while other nations, possessed of a navy and commercial marine vastly inferior to those of England, have maintained a standard which actually originated in the labours and experience of our own early nautical teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.