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Early Pole Star Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

H. C. Freiesleben
H. C. Freiesleben
Affiliation:
(German Hydrographic Institute)
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E. G. R. Taylor's interesting and noteworthy book The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England shows that navigation was at first based on the experience of practitioners; men of science were too remote from practical requirements. There was a big gap between what interested them and what the seaman could understand and apply.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1955 , pp. 285 - 288
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1955

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