| #1033201 in Books | 2010-10-26 | 2010-10-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.30 x.90 x7.00l,1.80 | File Name: 0939837897 | 246 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The Definitive Sextant Book|By drrob95|Every once in a while something comes along that grabs my attention to the point I am spell bound, so is the case with this outstanding book. I have long held an interest in celestial navigation, and appreciate the surveying and nautical instruments of years ago that were used in nautical navigation and field astronomy. Bill's book has||Even landsmen who take an interest in scientific instruments and precision measurement will find this book of absorbing interest. There has never been anything quite like it before, and it will become the standard work for a long time to come. --George Huxtab
The Nautical Sextant reveals in pictures, prose, and perspective the experience and knowledge gained by the author from years of acquiring, studying, and restoring sextants from earlier times and from around the world. This fascinating book owes much of its attraction to the expert description and photos of the mechanics of the sextants and their subassemblies. It is also the story of how different manufacturers, in different times and places, solved the same mechan...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Nautical Sextant | W. J. Morris.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
