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Cruise ship captain in uniform studies navigational charts with a compass on a table in the ship's bridge.
world map based on description given by Herodotus in the 5th century bce
A mariner's compass card showing a full circle of cardinal and intercardinal directions, with degree markings and labeled points radiating outward, used for navigation with a magnetic compass.
Mercator's 1569 world map
cross-staff
navigator's cross-staff
Hadley's Quadrant
determining the course of an aircraft
fixing position
hyperbolic position lines
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Harold Gatty
Australian-born aviator
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William Adams
English navigator
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William P. Lear
American engineer and industrialist
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Jean-Charles de Borda
French mathematician and nautical astronomer
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George Dollond
British optician
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Peter Dollond
British optician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Bowditch
American navigator
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne
British astronomer
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Sir Robert Dudley
English engineer

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