The cry of''Breakers ahead!" was the first warning that the navigating officers had made a dreadful mistake in their dead reckoning, or, in the mordant Spanish equivalent, their navegacion de fantasia.
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Compass
A Story of Exploration and Innovation
by Alan Gurney
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A history of the compass describes its pivotal role in early shipping, relating how its development over the course of hundreds of years was marked by thousands of shipwrecks and the disastrous fates of sailors who misused it.
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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation
June 2004, W. W. Norton & Company
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"The cry of''Breakers ahead!" was the first warning that the navigating officers had made a dreadful mistake in their dead reckoning, or, in the mordant Spanish equivalent, their navegacion de fantasia."
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1. Dead Reckoning
Chapter 2. Needle and Stone
Chapter 3. The Rose of the Winds
Chapter 4. Variation and Dip
Chapter 5. Edmond Halley, Polymath
Chapter 6. To Compass the Globe
Chapter 7. Halleyan Lines
Chapter 8. Dr. Gowin Knight and His Magnetic Machine
Chapter 9. Knight's Compass
Chapter 10. The Shocks of Tempestuous Seas
Chapter 11. Any Old Iron, Any Old Iron
Chapter 12. The Book of Bearings
Chapter 13. The Flinders Bar
Chapter 14. Soft Iron, Hard Iron
Chapter 15. "An Evil So Pregnant with Mischef"
Chapter 16. Deviation, the Hydra-Headed Monster
Chapter 17. The "Inextricable Entangled Web"
Chapter 19. Thomson's Compass and Binnacle
Chapter 20. The Selling of a Compass
Chapter 21. A Question of Liquidity
Epilogue:. From Needle to Spinning Top
Appendix:. Deviation
Notes
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Index
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