72 results filtered with: Navigation
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The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.
William HogarthDate: 1739Reference: 38278i- Books
Where am I? : why we can find our way to the moon but get lost in the mall / Colin Ellard.
Colin EllardDate: [2009]- Archives and manuscripts
Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)
Finch, Sir John, 1584-1660Date: 1658-1660Reference: MS.2362
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Zebrafish posterior lateral line development
Leo Valdivia, Dr Steve Wilson- Archives and manuscripts
Le Cordier, Samson
Le Cordier, SamsonDate: c. 1690Reference: MS.3212- Books
Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].
Edward WrightDate: 1610
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The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid.
William ReidDate: 1849
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Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.
Edmund GunterReference: 46655i
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Zebrafish sensory neuromasts
Kate Turner, Dr Steve Wilson- E-books
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The mariners new kalendar Containing the principles of arithmetic and geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension. Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks.
Colson, Nathaniel, fl. 1674.Date: [1748]
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Expériences pratiques de la boussole circulaire : faites a bord des navires de l'état et de la marine marchande / par Émile Marin Duchemin.
Duchemin, Emile Marin.Date: 1876- Pictures
Ship-building: quadrant (top), and telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
Reference: 44516i- E-books
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A system of seamanship, and naval tactics . Extracted from the Encyclopaedia, published by Thomas Dobson. Illustrated with copperplates.
Clerk, John, 1728-1812.Date: 1799
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Navigation: a sighting compass. Engraving.
Date: 1768Reference: 46686i
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Navigation: a gimbal compass and a sextant. Engraving.
Reference: 46659i- E-books
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The new practical navigator being an epitome of navigation; containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude; and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe ... The first American, from the thirteenth English edition of John Hamilton Moore. Improved by the introduction of several new tables, and by large additions to the forme tables, and revised and corrected by a skilful mathematician and navigator. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which are added, some general instructions and information to merchants, masters of vessels, and others concerned in navigation, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs.
Moore, John Hamilton, d. 1807.Date: [1800]- E-books
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The seaman's daily assistant, being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea In which are contained, rules, shewing how the allowances for Lee-way, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c. are to be made, and to correct the dead-reckoning by an observation, in all cases: and also all the tables that are any ways necessary for the seaman's use in keeping a journal. By Thomas Haselden, late teacher of the mathematics in the Royal Navy.
Haselden, Thomas, d. 1740.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- E-books
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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator Containing, practical geometry, plane and spheric, superficial and solid; with its uses in all kinds of mensurations. Trigonometry, plane and spheric, both geometric, instrumental, and logarithmic with its uses in navigation, viz. In plane, Mercator's, and great circle sailing, geography, astronomy, the projection of the sphere, &c. The Gregorian or new calendar, description and use of the plane-chart, Mercator's-chart, both globes, hemispheres, and divers other instruments. A new form of keeping a sea-reckoning, or account of a ship's way. A traverse table; a table of meridional parts; a table of 10,000 logarithms, and logarithmic sines, tangents and secants, carefully corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior. The whole revis'd and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, & F.R.S.
Atkinson, James, fl. 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,LXV. [1765]
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The gentleman's dictionary. In three parts, viz. I. The art of riding the great horse. II. The military art. III. The art of navigation / Each part done alphabetically, from the sixteenth edition of the original French. Published by the Sieur Guillet. With large additions, alterations and improvements, adapted to the customs and actions of the English.
Date: 1705- Books
Instruments of navigation / by Luís de Albuquerque.
Luis de AlbuquerqueDate: 1988
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Ship-building: logarithmic equipment and tables. Coloured engraving by Stead, 1813.
Date: 4 September 1813Reference: 44512i- E-books
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Epitome of the art of navigation; or, A short, easy, and methodical way to become a compleat navigator Containing, practical geometry, plane and spheric, superficial and solid; with its uses in all kinds of mensuration. Trigonometry, plane and spheric, both geometric, instrumental, and logarithmic, with its uses in navigation, viz. In plane, Mercator's, and great circle sailing, geography, astronomy, the projection of the sphere, &c. The Gregorian or new calendar, description and use of the plane-chart, Mercator's-chart, both globes, hemispheres, and divers other instruments. A new form of keeping a sea-reckoning, or account of a ship's way. A traverse table; a table of meridional parts; a table of 10,000 logarithms, and logarithmic sines, tangents and secants, carefully corrected. By James Atkinson, Senior, the whole revised and corrected, with the utmost care, by W. Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, & F.R.S.
Atkinson, James, fl. 1667-1715.Date: M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]- Books
Older people's use of unfamiliar space (OPUS) / Judith Phillips [and others].
Date: 2010- Books
Dark and magical places : the neuroscience of how we navigate / Christopher Kemp.
Kemp, ChristopherDate: 2022- Pictures
Navigation: a compass, and putti showing its use. Engraving.
Date: 1768Reference: 46684i