Year: 2010 Language: english Author: W. J. Morris Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications Edition: 1st (October 26, 2010) ISBN: 9780939837892 Format: EPUB/PDF/AZW Quality: eBook Pages count: Multiple Description: 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 mechanical problems in different ways in order to perfect one of the most accurate mechanical devices ever produced by man. All of this is complemented by an historical overview to the current day, an overview which has never been published until now. The Nautical Sextant will be of particular value not only to navigators, but also to restorers, collectors, students of technology, curators, and sextant dealers. With its bibliography and extensive use of footnotes, this book will certainly become a classic in its field. This book is as advertised; a comprehensive source of information about sextants. Down to the nuts and springs in the various movving parts. Up to you to know what you want. If you are looking for instructions on using your setant, this is not the book. If you need to repair or restore your sextant, this is it.
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The Nautical Sextant
Language: english
Author: W. J. Morris
Publisher: Paradise Cay Publications
Edition: 1st (October 26, 2010)
ISBN: 9780939837892
Format: EPUB/PDF/AZW
Quality: eBook
Pages count: Multiple
Description: 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 mechanical problems in different ways in order to perfect one of the most accurate mechanical devices ever produced by man. All of this is complemented by an historical overview to the current day, an overview which has never been published until now.
The Nautical Sextant will be of particular value not only to navigators, but also to restorers, collectors, students of technology, curators, and sextant dealers. With its bibliography and extensive use of footnotes, this book will certainly become a classic in its field.
This book is as advertised; a comprehensive source of information about sextants. Down to the nuts and springs in the various movving parts. Up to you to know what you want. If you are looking for instructions on using your setant, this is not the book. If you need to repair or restore your sextant, this is it.
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