Compass: A Story of Exploration and InnovationW. W. Norton & Company, 2004 - 320 pàgines From the time man first took to the seas until only one thousand years ago, sight and winds were the sailor's only navigational aids. It was not until the development of the compass that maps and charts could be used with any accuracy-even so, it would be hundreds of years and thousands of shipwrecks before the marvellous instrument was perfected. Its history up to modern times is filled with the stories of disasters that befell sailors who misused it. of the essential navigational device-the instrument Victor Hugo called the soul of the ship. |
Continguts
PROLOGUE | 13 |
DEAD RECKONING | 19 |
NEEDLE AND STONE | 31 |
THE ROSE OF THE WINDS | 41 |
VARIATION AND DIP | 55 |
EDMOND HALLEY POLYMATH | 69 |
To COMPASS THE GLOBE | 77 |
HALLEYAN LINES | 87 |
SOFT IRON HARD IRON | 175 |
AN EVIL So PREGNANT WITH MISCHIEF | 187 |
DEVIATION THE HYDRAHEADED MONSTER | 199 |
THE INEXTRICABLE ENTANGLED WEB | 211 |
GRAYS BINNACLE | 225 |
THOMSONS COMPASS AND BINNACLE | 235 |
THE SELLING OF A COMPASS | 247 |
A QUESTION OF LIQUIDITY | 261 |
DR GOWIN KNIGHT AND HIS MAGNETIC MACHINE | 99 |
KNIGHTS COMPASS | 109 |
THE SHOCKS OF TEMPESTUOUS SEAS | 119 |
ANY OLD IRON ANY OLD IRON | 135 |
THE BOOK OF BEARINGS | 149 |
THE FLINDERS BAR | 161 |
FROM NEEDLE TO SPINNING TOP | 273 |
DEVIATION | 277 |
NOTES | 281 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 11 - the sailors, moreover, as they sail over the sea, when in cloudy weather they can no longer profit by the light of the Sun, or when the world is wrapped up in the darkness of the shades of night, and they are ignorant to what point of the compass their ship's course is directed, they touch the magnet with a needle, which (the needle) is whirled round in a circle until, when its motion ceases, its point looks direct to the north