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Compass
Compass
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The fascinating and disaster-strewn history of the search to perfect the essential navigational device. This book chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. ... more »
Author:
The fascinating and disaster-strewn history of the search to perfect the essential navigational device. This book chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. ... more »
ISBN-13: 9781415917404
ISBN-10: 141591740X
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ISBN-10: 141591740X
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