Excerpt from The New American Practical Navigator; Being an Epitome of Navigator: Containing All the Tables Necessary to Be Used With the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea; Illustrated by Proper Rules and Examples Table III. Contains the meridional parts for every degree and minute of the quadrant, calculated by the following rule, viz. M T X in which T is the log. Tangent less radius of half the latitude, increased by taken to seven places of figures, reckoned as integers; and M is the meridional parts of that latitude in miles. 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.