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  <dc:title>Unpublished manuscript, 'An essay on the improvement of navigation by means of new sea-charts and nautical tables' by John Cooke</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Cooke provides improvements on navigational methods in three parts: one focusing on sailing in sight of land, using charts to navigate; one focusing on sailing on the ocean using charts and numerical tables to navigate; and the last focusing on solving problems in nautical astronomy using numbers only. 

Subject: Navigation

Communicated by Mr [Taylor] Combe. Read to the Royal Society on 26 January 1815.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1809</dc:date>
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