01049nam a22001697a 4500 62325 62325 9780198733713 623.8909 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. Navigation BK 0 0 0 623_890900000000000_B456N_2017 0 NFIC 60728 GPL GPL GEN 2020-08-22 CRV/160/GPLM 1308.00 623.8909 B456N 2017 64930 2020-08-22 2020-08-22 BK