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Title: 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
By: W. F. J.Morzer Bruyns, Dr. Richard Dunn
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199532540
ISBN 13: 9780199532544
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 25 June, 2009
Pages: 336
Description: This book describes the history and development of navigating instruments. Before satellites these were used to measure the altitude of the sun and stars above the horizon, to determine the ship's position at sea. The book also contains a catalogue of 347 mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, and octants, sextants and artificial horizons.
Synopsis: 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 entry includes the place of the object's origin, its maker, the object's date, inscriptions (by the maker and/or relating to an owner), the graduated scale, the instrument's dimensions and a general description that includes details such as used materials and detached parts. Finally the object's provenance (previous owners and/or users) and references to literature on its history and handling are given.
Illustrations: 76 line drawings, 694 photographs, 22 colour images
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Returnable
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