The Nautical Sextant reveals in pictures, prose, and perspective
the experience and knowledge gained by the author from years of
acquiring, studying, and restoring sextants from earlier times and
from around the world.
This fascinating book owes much of its attraction to the expert
description and photos of the mechanics of the sextants and their
subassemblies. It is also the story of how different manufacturers,
in different times and places, solved the same mechanical problems
in different ways in order to perfect one of the most accurate
mechanical devices ever produced by man. All of this is
complemented by an historical overview to the current day, an
overview which has never been published until now.
The Nautical Sextant will be of particular value not only to
navigators, but also to restorers, collectors, students of
technology, curators, and sextant dealers. With its bibliography
and extensive use of footnotes, this book will certainly become a
classic in its field.
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