Primer of Celestial Navigation - Couverture souple

Favill, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406746452 ISBN 13 : 9781406746457

Editeur : Read Books, 2007

Synopsis

This fascinating antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive exposition of the elementary principles of celestial navigation, including information on the fundamentals, procedures and their problems, practical points, essential equipment, and much more besides. Written in clear, concise language and containing a plethora of helpful illustrations and tables, this text will be of considerable utility to the novice astrologer, and will also be of use to those with more experience as a reference book. The chapters of this volume include: Astronomical Time, The Nautical Almanac, Altitudes, The Sextant, The Compass, The Astronomical Triangle, Trigonometry, Logarithms, Introduction to Position Finding, Latitude, Longitude and Chronometer Error, Azimuth and Compass Error, et cetera. This book was first published in 1944, and is being republished now complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406746452
• ISBN 13: 9781406746457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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