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  • Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.
  • Astronomy: a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.
  • Navigation: several quadrants and a sextant. Engraving.
  • Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
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    The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: 1739 | Reference: 38278i
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    Where am I? : why we can find our way to the moon but get lost in the mall / Colin Ellard.

    Ellard, Colin, 1958- | Date: [2009]
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    Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].

    Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615. | Date: 1610
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    The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid.

    Reid, William, 1791-1858. | Date: 1849
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    Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

    Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626. | Reference: 46655i
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