Navigation: A Very Short Introduction

by Jim Bennett

From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is fascinating. The scientific and technological developments that have enabled accurate measurements of position were central to exploration, trade, and the opening up of new continents, and the resulting journeys taken under their influence have had a profound...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198733712
• ISBN13: 9780198733713
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 6.8"