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Book Edition: Compendium Artis Nauticae, Being the Daily Practice of the whole Art of Navigation; whereby All the Problems of Navigation and Astronomy practicable at Sea, are easily, expeditiously and exactly performed, only by Tabular Inspection: without The Operation of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; each Problem being amply explained, and rendered intelligible to the meanest Capacity; so as to enable them to keep an Account of the Ships Way, both by Plain and Mercator's-Sailing: All being wholly New, and exactly agreeing with the nicest Calculation, and may readily be applied to most Parts of Practical Mathematicks. By John Collier, Formerly Teacher of Mathematicks to the Gentlemen Voluntiers in the Royal Navy.

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Compendium Artis Nauticae, Being the Daily Practice of the whole Art of Navigation; whereby All the Problems of Navigation and Astronomy practicable at Sea, are easily, expeditiously and exactly performed, only by Tabular Inspection: without The Operation of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; each Problem being amply explained, and rendered intelligible to the meanest Capacity; so as to enable them to keep an Account of the Ships Way, both by Plain and Mercator's-Sailing: All being wholly New, and exactly agreeing with the nicest Calculation, and may readily be applied to most Parts of Practical Mathematicks. By John Collier, Formerly Teacher of Mathematicks to the Gentlemen Voluntiers in the Royal Navy.

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Record ID 97268

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 70-71

Collier's Navigation

Borrowed: 1773/2/11 (Thursday). Returned: 1773/3/20 (Saturday). Classmark: A5 . 17. Original Returned Text: Collier's Navigation.


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David Hill
Gender: Male.
Life dates: b. c. 1755. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1386054468.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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John Collier (Male)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Compendium Artis Nauticae, Being the Daily Practice of the whole Art of Navigation; whereby All the Problems of Navigation and Astronomy practicable at Sea, are easily, expeditiously and exactly performed, only by Tabular Inspection: without The Operation of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; each Problem being amply explained, and rendered intelligible to the meanest Capacity; so as to enable them to keep an Account of the Ships Way, both by Plain and Mercator's-Sailing: All being wholly New, and exactly agreeing with the nicest Calculation, and may readily be applied to most Parts of Practical Mathematicks. By John Collier, Formerly Teacher of Mathematicks to the Gentlemen Voluntiers in the Royal Navy.
Classmark: A.5.17.

Record ID 105953

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1772-1776. (UYLY207-2) (1772-1776, Type: Student). Page: 96-97

Collier's Navigation

Borrowed: 1775/11/4 (Saturday). Returned: 1775/11/15 (Wednesday). Classmark: A5 .17. Original Returned Text: Collier's Navigation.


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Andrew Duncan
Gender: Male.
Life dates: c. 1755-1827. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1377770044.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Student.


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John Collier (Male)
Genre: Mathematics, Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Compendium Artis Nauticae, Being the Daily Practice of the whole Art of Navigation; whereby All the Problems of Navigation and Astronomy practicable at Sea, are easily, expeditiously and exactly performed, only by Tabular Inspection: without The Operation of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; each Problem being amply explained, and rendered intelligible to the meanest Capacity; so as to enable them to keep an Account of the Ships Way, both by Plain and Mercator's-Sailing: All being wholly New, and exactly agreeing with the nicest Calculation, and may readily be applied to most Parts of Practical Mathematicks. By John Collier, Formerly Teacher of Mathematicks to the Gentlemen Voluntiers in the Royal Navy.
Classmark: A.5.17.