Sextants at Greenwich : a catalogue of the mariner's quadrants, mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, octants, sextants, quintants, reflecting circles and artificial horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich /

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Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum. The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and us...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J. (Willem Frederik Jacob), 1943-
Corporate Author: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Other Authors: Dunn, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : London : Oxford University Press ; National Maritime Museum, ©2009.
Subjects:
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) > Catalogs.
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Nautical instruments > History > Catalogs.
Instruments nautiques > Histoire > Catalogues.
TRANSPORTATION > Ships & Shipbuilding > Pictorial.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Marine & Naval.
Nautical instruments.
Catalogs.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations; PART ONE: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; 1 An introduction to the history of celestial navigation; 2 The history and development of instruments for measuring altitude at sea before the octant; 3 The invention of the octant, and its development and diffusion; 4 The sextant and further improvements in the eighteenth century; 5 Innovations and production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 6 Collecting and interpreting navigation at Greenwich; PART TWO: THE CATALOGUE; Explanation; Appendix 1 The Adams and other significant collections: a checklist.

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