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Every-day Science: Volume 7. The Conquest of Time and Space
Henry Smith Williams and Edward Huntington Williams
Finding your way across an empty ocean once meant conquering time itself. This volume traces navigation's tools, from the mariner's compass and dead reckoning to the sextant, the chronometer, and the solving of longitude. The human triumph over distance, clearly told. Follow the instruments that let sailors master the trackless sea.
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82 chapters
- 1EVERY-DAY SCIENCE
- 2CONTENTS
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4THE CONQUEST OF TIME AND SPACE
- 5INTRODUCTION
- 6I THE CONQUEST OF THE ZONES
- 7THE MARINER'S COMPASS
- 8SAILING BY DEAD RECKONING
- 9THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEXTANT
- 10PERFECTING THE CHRONOMETER
- 11FINDING THE TIME WITHOUT A CHRONOMETER
- 12ASCERTAINING THE SHIP'S LONGITUDE
- 13MEASURING A DEGREE OF LATITUDE
- 14THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC
- 15SOUNDINGS AND CHARTS
- 16THE LURE OF THE UNKNOWN
- 17THE QUEST OF THE POLE
- 18II THE HIGHWAY OF THE WATERS
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