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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Co-author Michel Vanvarenbergh learned the basics of navigation at an early age from his father, a merchant marine captain and maritime pilot. He was an engineer before becoming a commercial airline pilot for Sabena World Airlines, qualified as Captain and flight instructor. He taught aircraft navigation at the national Belgian Ecole d'Aviation Civile and wrote the course that is still in use there. Celestial navigation, and particularly the study of historic techniques, has been an area of special interest for more than 30 years. Co-author Peter Ifland is a retired Commander in the U. S. Navy Reserve, having served as a deck officer on destroyer types in WWII and Korea. Ifland holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and spent his professional career as a manager in R&D for a multinational consumer products company. He has a special interest in the hand-held instruments used for celestial navigation. He has also written "Taking the Stars: Celestial Navigation from Argonauts to Astronauts," and published numerous articles on celestial navigation instruments.
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This review is from: Line Of Position Navigation:: Sumner And Saint-Hilaire: The Two Pillars Of Modern Celestial Navigation (Paperback)
What is not made clear in Amazon's brief review of this book is that the bulk of the book, apart from about thirty pages, is made up of reprints of Sumner's and Saint-Hilaire's original articles. Personally, if I had known that before buying, I would not have bought it.
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traverse tables, air almanac, next degree greater, terrestrial projection, finding the apparent time, central altitude, first altitude, estimated longitude, nouvelle navigation, single altitude, estimated latitude, chronometer time, celestial triangle, true latitude, true azimuth, assumed latitude, second altitude, observed altitude, local hour angle, calculated altitude, meridian observation, intersected points, double altitudes, equal altitude, zenith distance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marcq Saint-Hilaire, Captain Sumner, Revue Maritime, Technical Note, Nautical Almanac, Hydrographic Office, Latitude Longitude, United States Navy Department, Nautical Magazine, North Latitude, Mercator's Chart, French Navy, West of Greenwich, C's Altitude, West Longitude, Académie des Sciences, Astronomical Navigation Tables, Apparent Distance, New York, Nautical Science, South Latitude, Estimated Position Browse Sample Pages:
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traverse tables, air almanac, next degree greater, terrestrial projection, finding the apparent time, central altitude, first altitude, estimated longitude, nouvelle navigation, single altitude, estimated latitude, chronometer time, celestial triangle, true latitude, true azimuth, assumed latitude, second altitude, observed altitude, local hour angle, calculated altitude, meridian observation, intersected points, double altitudes, equal altitude, zenith distance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marcq Saint-Hilaire, Captain Sumner, Revue Maritime, Technical Note, Nautical Almanac, Hydrographic Office, Latitude Longitude, United States Navy Department, Nautical Magazine, North Latitude, Mercator's Chart, French Navy, West of Greenwich, C's Altitude, West Longitude, Académie des Sciences, Astronomical Navigation Tables, Apparent Distance, New York, Nautical Science, South Latitude, Estimated Position Browse Sample Pages:
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