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Guide to the Dutch standard method of calculating latitude in the 19th century

HAZEWINKEL, Abraham Cornelis.
Handleiding om op verschillende wijzen de breedte buiten den middag of meridiaan te vinden, door waarnemingen aan de zon of sterren; ... Tweede druk.
Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1839. 8vo. With a lithographed plate and several letterpress tables. Contemporary boards. [4], 53, [3 blank], 31, [1 blank] pp.
€ 750
Rare revised and enlarged second edition of a guide to Hazewinkel's method of calculating latitude, which was implemented as the standard method in the national Dutch marine after the publication of the first edition in 1827 and remained in use until the end of the 19th century. This method by Abraham Cornelis Hazewinkel (1772-1842), a ship's captain who established a Dordrecht school for training sailors in 1817, was also invented simultaneously, but independently, by the Dutch mathematician Rehuel Lobatto (1797-1866), and is known as the Lobatto-Hazewinkel method. It replaced the longer method of Cornelis Douwes, introduced in the end of the 18th century.
With a library stamp on title-page, some occasional foxing, and the binding with the top of the front hinge cracked. Good copy. Crone library 838 (cf. pp. xlvii-xlviii); Maritieme gesch. der Nederlanden III, p. 216; Picarta (3 copies); WorldCat (same 3 copies); cf. Bierens de Haan 1943 (first ed.); Cat. NHSM, p. 68 (first ed.).
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