Year: 1574 Language: English Author: William Bourne Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 153 Description: The first extensive, systematic, practical navigation manual in the English language that was widely used and influential. Although it was not the very first English text on navigation, it was the first significant standardized manual on which Davis, Moore, and later Bowditch built. In 1574, Bourne produced a popular version of Martín Cortés de Albacar's Arte de Navegar, entitled A Regiment for the Sea. He was critical of certain aspects of the original and created a manual of more practical use for seamen. Bourne described how to make observations of the sun and stars using a cross-staff, and how to plot coastal features from a ship by taking bearings through triangulation.
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Regiment for the Sea
Language: English
Author: William Bourne
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 153
Description: The first extensive, systematic, practical navigation manual in the English language that was widely used and influential. Although it was not the very first English text on navigation, it was the first significant standardized manual on which Davis, Moore, and later Bowditch built. In 1574, Bourne produced a popular version of Martín Cortés de Albacar's Arte de Navegar, entitled A Regiment for the Sea. He was critical of certain aspects of the original and created a manual of more practical use for seamen. Bourne described how to make observations of the sun and stars using a cross-staff, and how to plot coastal features from a ship by taking bearings through triangulation.
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