Title Sextants at Greenwich : a catalogue of the mariner's quadrants, mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, octants, sextants, quintants, reflecting circles and artificial horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by Richard Dunn.

Publication Info.	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; London : National Maritime Museum, [2009]
	©2009

Online access
Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource (xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Summary	Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum. The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and used for that purpose, between about 1450 and the 1970s. The instruments in the catalogue form the main thread in these chapters. The catalogue consists of 347 entries of instruments for celestial navigation, the octants, sextants and related instruments preserved in the National Maritime Museum. Each.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Abbreviations; PART ONE: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; 1 An introduction to the history of celestial navigation; 2 The history and development of instruments for measuring altitude at sea before the octant; 3 The invention of the octant, and its development and diffusion; 4 The sextant and further improvements in the eighteenth century; 5 Innovations and production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 6 Collecting and interpreting navigation at Greenwich; PART TWO: THE CATALOGUE; Explanation; Appendix 1 The Adams and other significant collections: a checklist.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) -- Catalogs.
	National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Genre/Form	Catalogs.
Subject	National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
	Nautical instruments -- History -- Catalogs.
	Nautical instruments.
	History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Catalogs.
Added Author	Dunn, Richard, 1966-
	National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Other Form:	Print version: Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. (Willem Frederik Jacob), 1943- Sextants at Greenwich. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; London : National Maritime Museum, ©2009 9780199532544
ISBN	9780191559754 (electronic book)
	019155975X (electronic book)
	0199532540
	9780199532544

Title Sextants at Greenwich : a catalogue of the mariner's quadrants, mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, octants, sextants, quintants, reflecting circles and artificial horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich / W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by Richard Dunn.

Item Status

Library Links

Search Tools