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Author : John Favill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Primer of Celestial Navigation written by John Favill and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Favill
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343282370
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Primer of Celestial Navigation written by John Favill and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Mixter
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393332100
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Primer of Navigation written by George Mixter and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Webber Mixter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Primer of Navigation written by George Webber Mixter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1979 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1940, Mixter's Primer of Navigation has been the most relied-upon guide for sailors and boaters throughout the world. Within three years of its original publication, the book went through fifteen printings; in 1943 the second edition appeared and was followed by seven reprintings. In the early 1940s, the text was widely used as the primary resource in the training of navigators for service in World War II. After the war, when pleasure sailing and boating became an increasingly popular pastime, Primer of Navigation found a new audience of readers eager to ensure their families and friends of safe, pleasurable, bluewater adventures. Herrold Headley has now prepared a completely revised and updated seventh edition reflecting the latest developments in the art and science of navigation including vital new information on precise positioning and communication by electronic means; both Loran C and advancements in high-frequency FM and single side band radio telephone communications systems are covered in detail.
Author : Mary Blewitt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472906764
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen written by Mary Blewitt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12th edition of this bestselling book is proof of the success of Mary Blewitt's concise and clear style in explaining a particularly difficult skill, and it has been the bible for many generations of ocean navigators. Since this book was first published, the huge advances in electronic navigation have transported most offshore navigators to a world of press-button convenience. However, there is still a vital need for traditional skills when things go wrong: batteries can fail, aerials go overboard, and electronics have been known to get wet. A bestseller for over 50 years, Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen is a model of simplicity and clarity. The worked examples require only straightforward addition and subtraction, which explains why this book has truly earned its reputation for admirable conciseness and for making a tricky subject easy to understand. 'The "bible" of navigation for generations of yachtsmen... worth its weight in gold' Sailing
Author : Gene Grossman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781449938710
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Celestial Navigation for the Complete Idiot written by Gene Grossman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is ground breaking not because of what it has, but what it doesn't have: No complicated drawings; no mathematics problems; no astronomical talk; no big words you've never heard of. Sailor-author Gene Grossman finally breaks this wonderful subject down into plain English and explains it in such a way that you will no longer have any excuse to claim that you know nothing about the valuable boater's subject of Celestial Navigation. This book was inspired by Gene's DVD program of the same title, which has gained worldwide popularity and is being used the the Navy, Coast Guard and sailing schools all over the world.
Author : George Webber Mixter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Primer of Navigation written by George Webber Mixter and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Edward Huth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072820
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Lost Art of Finding Our Way written by John Edward Huth and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.
Author : Andrew Kenneth Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1588344916
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Time and Navigation written by Andrew Kenneth Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and placeais explored inaTime and Navigation- The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing changes in the sky. Early mariners like the Vikings accomplished amazing feats of navigation without using clocks at all. Pioneering seafarers in the Age of Exploration used dead reckoning and celestial navigation; later innovations such as sextants and marine chronometers honed these techniques by measuring latitude and longitude. When explorers turned their sights to the skies, they built on what had been learned at sea. For example, Charles Lindbergh used a bubble sextant on his record-breaking flights. World War II led to the development of new flight technologies, notably radio navigation, since celestial navigation was not suited for all-weather military operations. These forms of navigation were extended and enhanced when explorers began guiding spacecraft into space and across the solar system. Astronauts combined celestial navigation technology with radio transmissions. The development of the atomic clock revolutionized space flight because it could measure billionths of a second, thereby allowing mission teams to navigate more accurately. Scientists and engineers applied these technologies to navigation on earth to develop space-based time and navigation services such as GPS that is used every day by people from all walks of life. While the history of navigation is one of constant change and innovation, it is also one of remarkable continuity. Time and Navigation tells the story of navigation to help us understand where we have been and how we got there so that we can understand where we are going.
Author : Bill Heinlen
Publisher : ProStar Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780930030698
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Celestial Navigation in Plain English written by Bill Heinlen and published by ProStar Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celestial Navigation in Plain English offers a succinct, straightforward explanation of the fastest, easiest legitimate methods. Bill Heinlen presents the basic skills that will enable you to find your way anywhere in the world.
Author : Susan P. Howell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493077015
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Practical Celestial Navigation written by Susan P. Howell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by The Practical Sailor as "a first-class piece of work," Susan P. Howell's Practical Celestial Navigation was developed for Mystic Seaport's navigation courses. This third edition, originally published by the Seaport's Planetarium, retains the step-by-step format of the original, along with an abundance of diagrams and practice problems. Practical Celestial Navigation is recommended as a self-instruction text for beginners or for old celestial hands getting back in practice.
Author : Arthur Ainslie Ageton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Manual of Celestial Navigation written by Arthur Ainslie Ageton and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hewitt Schlereth
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780809282791
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Commonsense Celestial Navigation written by Hewitt Schlereth and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Billy D. Higgins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637113
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Navigating the C-124 Globemaster written by Billy D. Higgins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--barreling down a runway was an awesome sight. The aircraft's four 3800 hp piston engines (the largest ever mass-produced), mounted on its 174-foot wingspan, could carry a 69,000-pound payload of tanks, artillery or other cargo, or 200 fully equipped troops, at more than 300 mph. The flight crew, perched three stories above the landing gears in an unpressurized cockpit, relied, like Magellan, on celestial fixes to navigate over oceans. With a world-wide mission delivering troops and materials to such destinations as the Congo, Vietnam, Thule, Greenland and Antarctica, the Globemaster lived up to its name and was foundational to what Time magazine publisher Henry Luce termed the "American Century." Drawing on archives, Air Force bases, libraries and accident sites, and his own recollections as a navigator, the author details Cold War confrontations and consequent strategies that emerged after Douglas Aircraft Company delivered the first C-124A to the Military Air Transport Service in 1949.
Author : Stafford Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Yachtsman's Guide to Celestial Navigation written by Stafford Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISBN 0871650193 LCCN 7964641.
Author : John Karl
Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780939837755
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age written by John Karl and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books on celestial navigation take shortcuts in explaining concepts; incorrect diagrams and discussion are often used for the sake of moving the student along quickly. This book tells the true story-and the whole story. It conveys celestial navigation concepts clearly and in the shortest possible time.It's tailored for navigation in the GPS age-a time of computers, calculators, and web resources. Although it covers all of the traditional methods of 'working a sight, ' the primary thrust is using the (under $10) scientific calculator. By using equations that you key into your calculator, this book guides you toward a better understanding of the concepts of celestial navigation.You will learn novel ways to plot lines of position, ways to check your sextant accurately by star sights, and how to tell what time it is from a moon sight. The many appendices are a treasure of references and explanations of abstract ideas. Celestial Navigation is a crucial skill for the offshore navigator to know, this book provides the shortest path to that knowledge.
Author : Hewitt Schlereth
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574090581
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Celestial Navigation in a Nutshell written by Hewitt Schlereth and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hewitt Schlereth is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
