01001nam a22001457a 4500020001800000082001300018100001700031245005600048250000800104260005200112300003200164505003600196520060800232650001500840  a9780198733713  a623.8909  aBennett, Jim  aNavigation : A Very Short IntroductioncJim Bennett  a1st  aGreat ClarendonbOxford University Press c2017  axv, 135 Pagesb17X11 cmbPB  aInclude Illustrations and Index  a"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.  aNavigation