Bennett, Jim
Navigation : A Very Short Introduction Jim Bennett - 1st - Great Clarendon Oxford University Press 2017 - xv, 135 Pages 17X11 cm PB
Include Illustrations and Index
"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 flap.
9780198733713
Navigation
623.8909
Navigation : A Very Short Introduction Jim Bennett - 1st - Great Clarendon Oxford University Press 2017 - xv, 135 Pages 17X11 cm PB
Include Illustrations and Index
"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 flap.
9780198733713
Navigation
623.8909