The science of navigation [[electronic resource] ] : from dead reckoning to GPS / / Mark Denny
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| Autore: |
Denny Mark <1953->
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| Titolo: |
The science of navigation [[electronic resource] ] : from dead reckoning to GPS / / Mark Denny
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 623.8909 |
| Soggetto topico: | Navigation - History |
| Maps | |
| Cartography | |
| Geodesy | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: Point of Departure""; ""First Quadrant: Geodesy""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Earth and Its Orbit""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Shaping the Earth""; ""Second Quadrant: Cartography""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Surveying""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: Mapmaking""; ""Third Quadrant: Early Exploration and Navigation""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: Early Explorers, Basic Tools""; ""CHAPTER SIX: Europe Discovers the World""; ""Fourth Quadrant: Navigation in Modern Times""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN: The Age of Sail and Steam""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: The Electronic Age""; ""CONCLUSION: Nature's Navigators"" |
| ""Technical Appendix""""Annotated Bibliography""; Index. | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The science of navigation |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0560-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786830303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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