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Record #132612:

From sails to satellites: the origin and development of navigational science / J.E.D. Williams.

Title: From sails to satellites: the origin and development of navigational science / J.E.D. Williams.
Author(s): Williams, J. E. D.
Date: 1994.
Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press
Abstract: Popular history of navigation covering all significant techniques employed in polar exploration up to advent of global positioning systems (GPS)
Keywords: 527 -- Navigation.
656.6 -- Sea transport.
528.9(091) -- History of cartography.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 527
ISBN: 019856399X
SPRI record no.: 132612

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