Screen LibraryNavigation : a very short introduction /
"From Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to modern sailors using satellite-based technologies, people have relied on navigation , the art of finding a position and setting a course at sea, for exploration, trade, warfare, and the expansion of influence and empire. [Here] ... Jim Bennett l...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Very short introductions ;
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"From Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to modern sailors using satellite-based technologies, people have relied on navigation , the art of finding a position and setting a course at sea, for exploration, trade, warfare, and the expansion of influence and empire. [Here] ... Jim Bennett looks at the history of navigation, and the development of charts, techniques such as dead reckoning and instruments, such as astrolabes and sextants that became vital to seamen. He describes the final practical resolution of the problem of longitude and ends with the nature of navigation today."--Book |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 135 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780198733713 (paperback) : 0198733712 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | VK555 |
| CLC: | U675 |
| Call Number: | U675/B471 |
| Contents: | Early navigational cultures -- Medieval and Renaissance learning and practice -- A mathematical science -- Dead reckoning, longitude, and time -- The zenith of the mathematical seaman -- The electronic age. |