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 /
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...
Основен автор: | Morzer Bruyns, W. F. J. 1943- |
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Автор-организации: | National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
Други автори: | Dunn, Richard. |
Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York : London :
Oxford University Press ; National Maritime Museum,
℗♭2009.
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Print version::
Sextants at Greenwich. |
Съдържание:
- 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.