| Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part36.utf8:235773643:1099 |
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001 2009377527
003 DLC
005 20100204092620.0
008 100107s1983 stka 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009377527
020 $a0851744273
020 $a9780851744278
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aVK583$b.C68 1983
100 1 $aCotter, Charles H.$q(Charles Henry),$d1919-
245 12 $aA history of the navigator's sextant /$cby Charles H. Cotter.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aGlasgow :$bBrown, Son, & Ferguson,$c1983.
300 $a226 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The genesis of the mariner's angle-measuring instruments -- The seaman's quadrant -- Mariner's astrolabe, nautical ring and semicircle -- The cross-staff -- Shadow staffs -- Early instruments of reflection -- Improved instruments of reflection -- Improvements to Hadley's octant -- Marine sextants in the twentieth century -- Sextants for coastal navigation and surveying -- Artificial horizons for marine sextants -- Sextants for air navigation.
650 0 $aSextant$xHistory.