PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY by Nassau, Jason John - 1948

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1948. (xii) 311 pp. New and revised edition. Purple cloth decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with charts, diagrams and black and white photographs. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: Practical Astronomy; Astronomical Systems and Coordinates; The Astronomical Triangle; Time and Longitude; The Nautical Almanac; Conversion of Time; Corrections to Observations; Instruments; Determination of Time; Latitude; Azimuth; The Solar Attachment; Secular and Periodic Changes - The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac - Star Catalogues; Precise Determination of Azimuth; Determination of Time by the Transit Instrument; Longitude; The Zenith Telescope; and Determination of Latitude and Longitude by Equal Altitudes; followed by Appendix A: Forumulas Relating to Spherical Trigonometry; Appendix B: Interpolation; Constants and Formulas; Greek Alphabet; Abbreviations; Tables; Forms; Star Maps; and an index.. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.