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Cursus mathematicus, Mathematical sciences : in nine books ... : with the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments, and the doctrine of triangles applied to practice in mensurations of all kinds / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1690- Books
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An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea / [John Smeaton].
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: 1754- Books
Instruments of navigation / by Luís de Albuquerque.
Albuquerque, Luís de, 1917-1992.Date: 1988- Pictures
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An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: [1847]Reference: 29536i- Books
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Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1771 et 1772, en diverses parties de l'Europe, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique; pour vérifier l'utilité de plusieurs méthodes et instrumens, servant à déterminer la latitude et la longitude tant du vaisseau que des côtes, isles & écueils qu'on reconnoît: suivi de recherches pour rectifier les cartes hydrographiques / Par M.rs de Verdun de al Crenne ... le chevalier de Borda ... et Pingré.
Verdun de la Crenne, Jean René-Antoine, marquis de, 1741-1805.Date: [1778]- Books
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Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the vses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usuall propositions in astronomie, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30, and 60 gr of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1652- Books
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Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the uses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usual propositions in astronomy, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30 and 60 gr. of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1654- Books
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Waterman: The sea-mans almanack and prognostication for the year of our Lord god, 1655 : Being the third from bissextile or leap-year: wherein is contained the hour and minute of full sea or high-water (for every day in the year) at all the chiefest ports in and adjoyning to these three ... (the like not set forth by any other.) Excellent tables for sea-men and others, to finde the hour of the night by the stars without an instrument; with other things of good use. Calculated for the meridian of London by Andrew Waterman mariner.
Waterman, Andrew, marinerDate: 1655- Books
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The young sea-man's guide : or, the mariners almanack, for the year of our Lord God 1661. With a list of the ships of his Majesties Navy Royal; distinguished into their several ranks: as also, a table of the monthly wages belonging to all officers, sea-men and others serving his Majestie in the several ranks of the said ships. Together with a catalogue of books and instruments useful for sea-men; with directions, whereby every ordinary capacity may give an astronomical judgement of the winds and weather; and in what quarter the wind will fit. Also, the names and natures of the 32 winds; with tables of houses fitted for several latitudes. By Timothy Gadbury, philomath.
Gadbury, TimothyDate: [1660]- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with Henry Hughes & Son Ltd
Date: 1947-1948Reference: PP/NHE/B/2/10/5Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)- Books
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The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour : containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation; setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads. Depths and sands; very curiously placed on its due polus-heighth [sic] furnished with the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they ley one from another: ... whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together with new tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1675.
Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673Date: 1668