The American Practical Navigator: Bowditch (1802)

by Nathaniel Bowditch

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This is the most recent update edition of The American Practical Navigator, the definitive work on navigation. This encyclopedic work combined the best technologies of each generation of navigator. This edition includes the latest advances in electronic navigation and digital charting technology. It also covers non electronic navigation such as celestial, plotting and dead reckoning. Contains numerous tables which have been valued for years by practicing navigators. This Manual is carried on the bridge of every U.S. Navy ship and should be the mainstay of any serious navigator's library.… (more)

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Since the first publication, the text has evolved with the advances in navigation practices and continues to serve as a valuable reference for marine navigation in the modern day.

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1802

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Marine navigation blends both science and art.

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The science of navigation can be taught, but the art of navigation must be developed from experience.

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This is the most recent update edition of The American Practical Navigator, the definitive work on navigation. This encyclopedic work combined the best technologies of each generation of navigator. This edition includes the latest advances in electronic navigation and digital charting technology. It also covers non electronic navigation such as celestial, plotting and dead reckoning. Contains numerous tables which have been valued for years by practicing navigators. This Manual is carried on the bridge of every U.S. Navy ship and should be the mainstay of any serious navigator's library.

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Nathaniel Bowditch's American Practical Navigator is simply the most comprehensive reference work ever published on the art and science of marine navigation. There is no military or commercial fleet anywhere in the world that does not owe its success, at least tangentially, to the principles and lessons developed in these pages.

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