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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 / W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by Richard Dunn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; London : National Maritime Museum, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191559754
  • 019155975X
  • 9780191608902
  • 0191608904
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sextants at Greenwich.DDC classification:
  • 623.863 22
LOC classification:
  • VK585 .M67 2009eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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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