Compass A Story of Exploration and Innovation

Name: Compass A Story of Exploration and Innovation
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ISBN: 9780393327137

ISBN-10: 0393327132

ISBN-13: 9780393327137

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alan Gurney

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The first compasses were devised a thousand years ago & as they were steadily improved & understanding of their potential developed, so they made possible much of the exploration of the world, reliable mapping, & the reliable sea & air transport networks that we still rely on today.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.95" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.858

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