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100 1  Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J.|q(Willem Frederik Jacob),|d1943-
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85057228 
245 10 Sextants at Greenwich :|ba 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 /|cW.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns ; with a contribution by
       Richard Dunn. 
264  1 Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press ;|aLondon :
       |bNational Maritime Museum,|c[2009] 
264  4 |c©2009 
300    1 online resource (xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of 
       plates) :|billustrations (some color) 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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       1034770 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
655  4 Electronic books. 
655  7 Catalogs.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423692 
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700 1  Dunn, Richard,|d1966-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/nb99013240 
710 2  National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)|0https://
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aMörzer Bruyns, W.F.J. (Willem Frederik 
       Jacob), 1943-|tSextants at Greenwich.|dOxford ; New York :
       Oxford University Press ; London : National Maritime 
       Museum, ©2009|z9780199532544 
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