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The Sea- or Mariner's
Astrolabe
. (Manuscript)
1966
WTS/34/6
The Sea- or Mariner's Astrolabe, by Waters, in Portuguese publication Agrupamento de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga XV Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Coimbra, 1966.
A Tenth Mariner's
Astrolabe
. (Manuscript)
1957
WTS/33/13
Reprinted from the Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Vol. X, No. 4, October 1957.
A printed paper of the Royal Geographical Society dated Oct 1904 entitled a "Description of an
Astrolabe
1916-02-12-1918-08-06
DAN/253
A printed paper of the Royal Geographical Society dated Oct 1904 entitled a "Description of an Astrolabe" by S. A. Ionides.
Academic correspondence relating to National Maritime Museum. (Manuscript)
circa 1965
WTS/39/1
Correspondence regarding lectures, acquisitions, and other museum matters, including: notes and correspondence re. an astrolabe; proposed purchases file for replicas of Mariners Astrolabe; correspondence re.…
Letters relating to King William the fourth's acceptance of Sir Francis Drake's
astrolabe
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1831-1861
REC/74
Quarto volume from the library of the antiquary Robert Bigsby (1806-1873) entitled 'Letters relating to King William the Fourth's Acceptance of Sir Francis Drake's Astrolabe, and to His Majesty's Command that it should be deposited at Greenwich Hospital'.…
Navigation: Theory (Manuscript)
NVT
This class contains volumes relating to the theory of navigation, mathematics and astronomy, fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.…
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