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Loading... Sextants at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes, Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, ... in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns
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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 used for that purpose, between about 1450 and the 1970s. The instruments in the catalogue form the main thread in these chapters. The catalogue consists of 347 entries of instruments for celestial navigation, the octants, sextants and related instruments preserved in the National Maritime Museum. Each No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)527.3Natural sciences and mathematics Astronomy Celestial Navigation Finding time at sea (See also 529.74)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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