The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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When the term natural is used in navigation it has reference to natural sines, tangents, etc., and natural numbers. Natural sines, tangents, etc., are sines, tangents, etc., taken in arc, whose radii are I. Natural logarithms are those taken in a system whose modulus is I.

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