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  <dc:title>Unpublished manuscript, 'New method to find the course, distance, difference of latitude and departure, with the description and use of the quadrant' by John Phipps</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Two title pages, one with stylised fonts, followed by a paper by Phipps regarding a navigational method for finding the course, distance, and differences of latitude and departure of a ship using a quadrant of a mariner's compass. Phipps provides two examples with calculations to illustrate his method.

Subject: Geodesy

Written by Phipps in Staindrop, near Darlington, Durham [England].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[early 19th century]</dc:date>
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