Line of Position Navigation
Sumner and Saint-Hilaire, the Two Pillars of Modern Celestial Navigation
by Michel Vanvaerenbergh and Peter Ifland
If you have ever tracked the North Star across the night sky or held a sextant in your hand, you can learn more from this fine new study of celestial navigation. This book is a unique, concise resource for the history of navigation techniques that began in the 1840s using the stars to steer a ship -- but are still in use today with modern GPS technology. This authoritative book from Unlimited Publishing LLC includes a complete reprint of the rare first edition Captain Thomas H. Sumner wrote in 1843 to describe his new method for finding a line upon which a ship's position rested. Also included are translations of two articles from the 1870s in which French Naval Capitaine Marcq Saint-Hilaire published his new technique for establishing position using the estimated altitude of the celestial body.
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Line of Position Navigation: Sumner and Saint-Hilaire, the Two Pillars of Modern Celestial Navigation
March 14, 2003, Unlimited Pub., Unlimited Publishing LLC
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in English
- 1st ed.
1588320685 9781588320681
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31).
Includes reprint of Thomas A. Sumner's A new and accurate method of finding a ship's position at sea, by projection on Mercator's chart (Boston : T. Groom, 1843) as well as translations of Marcq Saint-Hilaires's Note sur la détermination du point (originally published in Revue maritime et coloniale, Oct. 1873) and Calcul du point observé (originally published in Revue maritime et coloniale, Mar.-Aug. 1875).
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