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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation by Alan Gurney W. W. Norton | August 2005 | ISBN-10: 0393327132 | ePUB/MOVI | 10.1/11.2 mb Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass-so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. From the time man first took to the seas until only one thousand years ago, sight and winds were the sailor's only navigational aids. It was not until the development of the compass that maps and charts could be used with any accuracy-even so, it would be hundreds of years and thousands of shipwrecks before the marvelous instrument was perfected. And its history up to modern times is filled with the stories of disasters that befell sailors who misused it. In this page-turning history of man's search for reliable navigation of treacherous sea routes around the globe, Alan Gurney brings to life the instrument Victor Hugo called "the soul of the ship." CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments Prologue Chapter 1 Dead Reckoning Chapter 2 Needle and Stone Chapter 3 The Rose of the Winds Chapter 4 Variation and Dip Chapter 5 Edmond Halley, Polymath Chapter 6 To Compass the Globe Chapter 7 Halleyan Lines Chapter 8 Dr. Gowin Knight and His Magnetic Machine Chapter 9 Knight’s Compass Chapter 10 The Shocks of Tempestuous Seas Chapter 11 Any Old Iron, Any Old Iron Chapter 12 The Book of Bearings Chapter 13 The Flinders Bar Chapter 14 Soft Iron, Hard Iron Chapter 15 “An Evil So Pregnant with Mischief” Chapter 16 Deviation, the Hydra-Headed Monster Chapter 17 The “Inextricable Entangled Web” Chapter 18 Gray’s Binnacle Chapter 19 Thomson’s Compass and Binnacle Chapter 20 The Selling of a Compass Chapter 21 A Question of Liquidity Epilogue: From Needle to Spinning Top Appendix: Deviation Notes https://s26.postimg.org/9ukcrr7sp/Compass_-_A_Story_of_Exploration_and_Innovation.jpg

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