Compass A Story of Exploration and Innovation

Name: Compass A Story of Exploration and Innovation
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ISBN: 9780393050738

ISBN-10: 0393050734

ISBN-13: 9780393050738

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alan Gurney

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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902

Alan Gurney is a former yacht designer and photographer living in Suffolk, England. His previous books include Compass and Race to the White Continent.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Prologue



Dead Reckoning



Needle and Stone



The Rose of the Winds



Variation and Dip



Edmond Halley, Polymath



To Compass the Globe



Halleyan Lines



Dr. Gowin Knight and His Magnetic Machine



Knight's Compass



The Shocks of Tempestuous Seas



Any Old Iron, Any Old Iron



The Book of Bearings



The Flinders Bar



Soft Iron, Hard Iron



"An Evil So Pregnant with Mischief"



Deviation, the Hydra-Headed Monster



The "Inextricable Entangled Web"



Gray's Binnacle



Thomson's Compass and Binnacle



The Selling of a Compass



A Question of Liquidity


Epilogue: From Needle to Spinning Top



Deviation


Notes


Bibliography


Index