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Search - Sextants at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes, Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting ... in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Sextants at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes, Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting ... in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Sextants at Greenwich A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants Mariner's Astrolabes Crossstaffs Backstaffs Octants Sextants Quintants Reflecting in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich
Author: W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Richard Dunn
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 th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199532544
ISBN-10: 0199532540
Publication Date: 8/31/2009
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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