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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 Artifici

Sextants at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artifici


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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.

Table of Contents:
W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns: An Introduction to the History of Celestial Navigation W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns: The History and Development of Instruments for Measuring Altitude at Sea, before the Octant W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns: The Invention of the Octant, its Development and Diffusion W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns: The Sextant and Further Improvements in the Eighteenth Century W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns: Innovations and Production in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Richard Dunn: Collecting and Interpreting Navigational Instruments at the National Maritime Museum W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns: The Catalogue W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns: Appendices

About the Author :
Dr W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns Sackler Research Fellow in the History of Astronomy and Navigational Sciences National Maritime Museum Greenwich Dr Willem F.J. Mörzer Bruyns (1943) was trained as navigation officer at the Amsterdam Nautical College and briefly sailed as a junior officer for the Amsterdam based 'Netherland' Line. He joined the Netherlands Maritime Museum in Amsterdam in 1969 and retired as Senior Curator of Navigation in 2005. In 1995 he was Huntington Fellow at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and from 2005-2007 Sackler Research Fellow in the History of Astronomy and Navigational Sciences at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in London. Since 1972 Mörzer Bruyns has published several books and over ninety-five articles in scholarly journals, on the history of navigation and navigational instruments and on nineteenth-century Dutch Arctic exploration. He also wrote over fifty book reviews on these subjects in scholarly journals. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Review :
The quality is superb, the clarity of the illustrations is first class, and the text is thorough, informative and learned. The Observatory Magazine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199532544
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 340 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 2224 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199532540
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artifici
  • Width: 254 mm


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