Sextants at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes, Cross-Staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants,

by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns and Richard Dunn

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199532540
• ISBN13: 9780199532544
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.9" x 13.2"