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^{page 315 note 1} Published by the Commissioners on Public Records, 1837.

^{page 316 note 1} Possibly the Globi terrestris sculptura of Gerard Mercator. Louvain, 1552.

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^{page 316 note 7} Numerous hour-glasses were a necessary part of the equipment of every well-appointed ship of the period. They were used for timing the length of watches, for estimating the distance sailed and thus for deducing the longitude. Several were turned simultaneously so as to insure against the risk of the stoppage of the sand in a single glass. The Dutch used them set in frames in groups of four. ‘A [printed] Survey-Book conteining all the Rigging … Furniture and Stores belonging to his Majesties ships’ the Royal James, the Royal Katherine and Hanvich, No. 2265, in the Pepysian Library, has the following entries:

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