images from The Quadrant and the Quill, diagrams, portraits and titlepages
see
also The Title Page, Navigation
see
also The Conquest of the Atlantic 1933
THE VICTORIA AND THE TRITON, MAGELLAN AND Navigation
W.H.COBB, How the World was Disciovered
TOP ROW
Alhazen,
The Optics (Opticae Thesaurus...) , Eusebius Episcopius
& Nikolai, Basel, 1572, titlepage with examples of the application
of optics.
Adams Small Quadrant, from the Navigation section of the Royal
Encyclopedia 1788 - 1790, detail 9 x 14cms
Charles
Saltonstall, The Navigator, printed by Hurlock, London
in 1636 and a fine indication of the self-image of seafaring folk.
BOTTOM
ROW
This book
is a sensational structure of drawn grids for navigators with the most
minor and, to me, incomprehensible variables. I have owned it for thirty
years without understanding it, but loved it for its dogged accuracy and
superb colour variables within the Grid. It measures 36 x 22cms.
singles
illustration
to published papers, Royal Academy of Naples 1798
William
Johnson, The Art of Navigation 1620 |