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  • An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
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    An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea / [John Smeaton].

    Smeaton, John, 1724-1792. | Date: 1754
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    Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1771 et 1772, en diverses parties de l'Europe, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique; pour vérifier l'utilité de plusieurs méthodes et instrumens, servant à déterminer la latitude et la longitude tant du vaisseau que des côtes, isles & écueils qu'on reconnoît: suivi de recherches pour rectifier les cartes hydrographiques / Par M.rs de Verdun de al Crenne ... le chevalier de Borda ... et Pingré.

    Verdun de la Crenne, Jean René-Antoine, marquis de, 1741-1805. | Date: [1778]
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    Instruments of navigation / by Luís de Albuquerque.

    Albuquerque, Luís de, 1917-1992. | Date: 1988
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    An episode in Dombey and son by Charles Dickens: the interior of "The wooden midshipman", a shop in the City of London for navigational instruments; a boy ("Rob the Grinder") is conversing with a pugilist known as "The Game Chicken". Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).

    Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 29536i
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