April 12, 2024
1876 Navigation - NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY - Chronometer
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or Search by Topic Africa America - North America -South Arabia - Middle East Arctic - Antarctic Asia - Central Asia - China & Japan Asia - Southeast Australia & Pacific Bibliographies Europe Globes Graphic Arts Literature Maps & Prints Mountaineering Natural History Russia Sciences Signed & Inscribed Sir Richard F. Burton 19th Century Essay - Navigation and the Marine Chronometer Title: Modern Methods in Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. Notes & Condition: A captivating chronology of nautical instruments used by early and contemporary navigators for the advance of science features magnetism and the marine chronometer, the latter invented by John Harrison. Draws from works as early as Fleurieu's 1773 account "Voyage fait par ordre du Roi", "Dissertation on the Rise of Navigation" (1786) by Dr. James Wilson, "Norie's Epitome of Navigation" by Martin Cortes (1872), and Raper's Navigation. 35 pages, published in 1876 for The Quarterly Review, London. These are the original pages, in excellent condition, attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label. A marine chronometer is a timekeeper precise enough to be used as a portable time standard; it can tfore be used to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation. They were the high tech product of their era, ranking in importance
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