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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. Morzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by Richard Dunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J. (Willem Frederik Jacob), 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nautical instruments--History--Catalogs.
- Nautical instruments.
- National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)--Catalogs.
- National Maritime Museum (Great Britain).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Appendix 2 Concordance of inventory numbersBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160890-4
- 1-282-35463-9
- 9786612354632
- 0-19-155975-X
- OCLC:
- 536239228
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