ATKINSON, James, & Henry Wilson.

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A Compleat System of Navigation: In Two Parts. I. Atkinson's Epitome. II. Navigation New Modell'd: Or, The Whole Art Performed, without Tables or Instruments; A handsomely bound copy of a later edition of this navigational treatise, first published in 1750. It covers the practical geometry, trigonometry, and astronomy of sailing while also including a dictionary of sea terms and many logarithmic tables. This copy contains a tipped-in leaf of notes in a contemporary hand.James Atkinson (c.1667-1715) was a "well-known instrument-maker, mathematical teacher, and text-book writer who had been servant to Andrew Wakely and succeeded to his shop on the south bank of the Thames" (Taylor, p. 254). Henry Wilson taught mathematics and navigation in the north. "He wrote his rather formal and old-fashioned text-book, Navigation New Modell'd in 1714, and was later at sea as mathematician to Admiral Byng to whose son he gave instruction" (Taylor, p. 291).

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