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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation Paperback - 2005
by Alan Gurney
Gurney chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument 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.
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The cry of''Breakers ahead!" was the first warning that the navigating officers had made a dreadful mistake in their dead reckoning, or, in the mordant Spanish equivalent, their navegacion de fantasia.
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- Title Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation
- Author Alan Gurney
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 322
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 2005-08-17
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780393327137 / 0393327132
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.44 x 0.38 in (20.47 x 13.82 x 0.97 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Modern
- Dewey Decimal Code 912.028
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- Kliatt, 03/01/2006, Page 38
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