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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: 1739Reference: 38278i
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Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)
Finch, Sir John, 1584-1660Date: 1658-1660Reference: MS.2362
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Zebrafish posterior lateral line development
Leo Valdivia, Dr Steve Wilson
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Le Cordier, Samson
Le Cordier, SamsonDate: c. 1690Reference: MS.3212
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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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Zebrafish sensory neuromasts
Kate Turner, Dr Steve Wilson
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Expériences pratiques de la boussole circulaire : faites a bord des navires de l'état et de la marine marchande / par Émile Marin Duchemin.
Duchemin, Emile Marin.Date: 1876
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Ship-building: quadrant (top), and telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
Reference: 44516i
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Navigation: a sighting compass. Engraving.
Date: 1768Reference: 46686i
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Navigation: a gimbal compass and a sextant. Engraving.
Reference: 46659i
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The gentleman's dictionary. In three parts, viz. I. The art of riding the great horse. II. The military art. III. The art of navigation / Each part done alphabetically, from the sixteenth edition of the original French. Published by the Sieur Guillet. With large additions, alterations and improvements, adapted to the customs and actions of the English.
Date: 1705
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Ship-building: logarithmic equipment and tables. Coloured engraving by Stead, 1813.
Date: 4 September 1813Reference: 44512i
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Dark and magical places : the neuroscience of how we navigate / Christopher Kemp.
Kemp, ChristopherDate: 2022
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Navigation: a compass, and putti showing its use. Engraving.
Date: 1768Reference: 46684i
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Navigation: a compass, and details of its use. Engraving.
Reference: 46687i
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Practical navigation, or, An introduction to the whole art : containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles : plain, mercator, great-circle sailing, and astronomical problems : the use of divers instruments ... : sundry useful tables in navigation, and a table of 10,000 logarithms, and of the logarithm-sines, tangents, and secants / by John Seller.
Seller, John, active 1658-1698.Date: 1694
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[Wellcome MS Turkish Ottoman 20].
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The mathematical principles of geography. Containing, I. An account of the various properties and affections of the earth and sea, with a description of the several parts thereof, and a table of the latitude and longitude of places, II. The use of the artificial or terrestrial globe, in solving problems, III. The principles of spherical and spheroidical sailing, with the solution of the several cases in numbers, by the common tables, according to the spheroidical figure of the earth / [William Emerson].
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: 1770
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Astronomy: a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving.
Reference: 46654i
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Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Reference: 25918i
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Arte de navegar em que se ensinam as regras praticas ... e roteyro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guiné, Angóla, Brasil, Indias, e ilhas occidentaes, e orientaes, novamente emendado, e accrescentadas muitas derrotas / por Manoel Pimentel.
Pimentel, Manuel, 1650-1719.Date: 1746
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Astronomy: an allegorical titlepage with Minerva and Britannia. Engraving 1782.
Date: 1 January 1782Reference: 46472i
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Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
Reference: 44513i

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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.

Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)

Zebrafish posterior lateral line development

Le Cordier, Samson

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)].

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.

Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

Zebrafish sensory neuromasts

Expériences pratiques de la boussole circulaire : faites a bord des navires de l'état et de la marine marchande / par Émile Marin Duchemin.

Ship-building: quadrant (top), and telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.

Navigation: a sighting compass. Engraving.

Navigation: a gimbal compass and a sextant. Engraving.

Ship-building: logarithmic equipment and tables. Coloured engraving by Stead, 1813.

Dark and magical places : the neuroscience of how we navigate / Christopher Kemp.

Navigation: a compass, and putti showing its use. Engraving.

Navigation: a compass, and details of its use. Engraving.

[Wellcome MS Turkish Ottoman 20].

Astronomy: a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving.

Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.

Arte de navegar em que se ensinam as regras praticas ... e roteyro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guiné, Angóla, Brasil, Indias, e ilhas occidentaes, e orientaes, novamente emendado, e accrescentadas muitas derrotas / por Manoel Pimentel.

Astronomy: an allegorical titlepage with Minerva and Britannia. Engraving 1782.

Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.