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...

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Main Authors: Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J (Willem Frederik Jacob), 1943-, Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J (Willem Frederik Jacob), 1943-
Corporate Author: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Other Authors: Dunn, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : London : Oxford University Press ; National Maritime Museum, ©2009
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245 1 0 |a Sextants at Greenwich :  |b 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 /  |c W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by Richard Dunn 
260 |a Oxford ;  |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press ;  |a London :  |b National Maritime Museum,  |c ©2009 
300 |a 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :   |b illustrations (some color) 
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505 0 |a 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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