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Admiralty manual for the deviations of the compass ... Evans, F. J.-(Frederick John), 1893 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
Encompassing Britain : painting at the points of the compass Collyer, Peter 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7.047(26:42-1)
On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles Smith, Archibald ca1861]. • • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
The mariners compass compleated : or the expert seaman's best guide Williams, Zachariah 1745 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.1.053.11
The paradoxal compass : Drake's dilemma /Horatio Morpurgo. "The Paradoxal Compass by Horatio Morpurgo is both historical narrative and environmental manifesto. He compares our own tipping point with the 'great unsettling' faced by the Elizabethans more than four centuries ago. Morpurgo dramatises the perilous hours during which Drake's Golden Hinde was stranded on a reef off the coast of Indonesia, and asks what was really at the heart of Drake's violent quarrel with Fletcher, the ship's chaplain. As the modern world continues to plunder the 'infinite store' of the earth's riches, Morpurgo explores how our abusive relationship with the natural world began. He asks what the Age of Discovery might have to teach us in the current environmental crisis, as we too reappraise our place in the world." 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92241
An essay on the variation of the compass ... Bain, William 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:629.1.053.11
A discourse of the variation of the compass or magnetical needle Burrowes, W 1614 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
A graphic method of correcting the deviations of a ship's compass Smith, Archibald 1855 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
The History of the Admiralty Compass Observatory / Fanning, A E. 1981. Fanning, A E 1981 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11:061.62
Deviation of the compass on board iron steamers proceeding to the Southern Hemisphere Towson, J T 1853 • • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
Practical rules for ascertaining the deviations of the compass which are caused by the ship's iron Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office 1842 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.1.053.11:094
On the origin of clockwork, perpetual motion devices and the compass Price, Derek J de Solla 1981? • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.25
Navigation spiritualiz'd : or, a new compass for seamen ... / Flavel, John. 1721. Flavel, John 1721 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:248
Trade mark London : the story of Francis Barker and son, compass and scientific instrument makers /by Crespel, Paul. 2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.2(421)
Local attraction : on the deviation of the compass, caused by the iron on board ship Poisson, Monsieur 1839-1841 • • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
Instructions for the construction of the best table of the deviations of a ship's compass ... Smith, Archibald 1850 • • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
The Sperry gyro-compass : elementary theory and complete description of system including operation, care Sperry Gyroscope Co 1917 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.1.054.6
The riddle of the compass : the invention that changed the world /Amir D Aczel "For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to visit cities like Baghdad or Antioch. There, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge, as well as keeping alive the works of Plato and Aristotle. When the best libraries in Europe held several dozen books, Baghdad's great library, The House of Wisdom, housed four hundred thousand. Jonathan Lyons shows just how much "Western" ideas owe to the Golden Age of Arab civilization. Even while their countrymen waged bloody Crusades against Muslims, a handful of intrepid Christian scholars, hungry for knowledge, traveled East and returned with priceless jewels of science, medicine, and philosophy that laid the foundation for the Renaissance. In this brilliant, evocative book Jonathan Lyons reveals the story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning."--Provided by publisher. 2002. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.1.053.1
chimney, as painted on the dock walls, Liverpool, for facilitating the detection and measurement of compass 1856 • • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
Navigation spiritualiz'd : or, a new compass for seamen ... / Flavel, John. 1760. Flavel, John 1760 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:248
Four points of the compass : the unexpected history of direction /Jerry Brotton. "North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation and exploration and are central to the imaginative, moral and political geography of virtually every culture in the world. Yet they are far more subjective and various - sometimes contradictory - than we might realize. The Four Points of the Compass takes the reader on a journey of directional discovery. Jerry Brotton reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of their maps; why the early Islam revered the south; why the Aztecs used five colour-coded cardinal directions; and why no societies, primitive or modern, have ever orientated themselves westwards. He ends by reflecting on our digital age in which we, the little blue dot on the screen, have become the most important compass point. Throughout, Brotton shows that the directions reflect a human desire to create order and that they only have meaning, literally and metaphorically, depending on where you stand." 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910
An explanation of E Hoppe's imppoved sextant ... also his improved azimuth compass ... Hoppe, E 1804 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:520.259
Elementary manual for the deviations of the compass in iron ships ... Evans, F. J.-(Frederick John), 1887 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11
Steady as she goes : a history of the Compass Department of the Admiralty /by A E Fanning. Fanning, A E 1986. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 629.1.053.11:354.71