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Thataway; the story of the magnetic compass.
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- South Brunswick, A. S. Barnes [1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text JSD 72-311 Offsite Notes on compass work [by] Kemp & Young. Revised ed.
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- Sevenoaks, Kandy Publications; [London], [Distributed by G. Philip], 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text JSD 77-643 Offsite The Spur book of map and compass / [by] Terry Brown and Rob Hunter.
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- Bourne End : Spurbooks, [1977,c1975]
- 1977-1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text *R-Map Div. GA151 .B77 1977 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
An essay on the variation of the compass, [microform] shewing how far it is influenced by a change in the direction of the ship's head, with an exposition of the dangers arising to navigators from not allowing for this change of variation. Interspersed with practical observations and remarks.
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- Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1817.
- 1817
Lettre de M. de La Hire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences à M.**** sur une nouvelle forme de boussole.
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- [Paris, La veuve de Sebastien-Marbre (ramoisy, 1687]
- 1687
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text *KB 1687 80-1061 [Also in microfilm in: *ZV-pv OEG v. 19, no. 21] Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Réponse de M. de La Hire à l'article de la Republique des lettres, où il est parlé de sa nouvelle boussole. Á M.***.
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- [Paris, Imprimé par la veuve de Sebastien-Marbre Cramoisy, 1687]
- 1687
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text *KB 1687 80-1062 [Also on microfilm in: *ZV-pv OEG v. 19, no. 22] Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Zhi nan che yu zhi nan zhen= The South-pointing carriage and the mariner's compass / Li Shuhua zhu.
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- Taipei, Yi wen yin shu guan (Yee Wen Publishing Co.), 1959.
- 1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text *OVL 82-331 Offsite Maps & compasses : a user's handbook / by Percy W. Blandford.
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- Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Tab Books, c1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text *R-Map Div. GA151 .B53 1984 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Map & compass fundamentals orienteering / by Toy Martin [and] Dave Lotty.
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- Sydney : Reed, 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text JAY K-52 Offsite The basic essentials of map and compass / by Cliff Jacobson ; illustrations by Cliff Moen.
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- Merrillville, Ind. : ICS Books, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text *R-Map Div. GV199.4 .J33 1988 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Contributions to terrestrial magnetism, the variation of the compass [microform]. From observations made in the United States Naval Service during the period from 1881 to 1894.
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- Washington, Govt. print. off., 1894.
- 1894
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Microform *ZV-354 no. 1-10 Offsite Map and compass / Toy Martin ; illustrated by Richard Gregory.
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- North Ryde : Methuen Australia, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Map Div. 93-6956 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Outward Bound map & compass handbook / Glenn Randall.
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- New York, NY : Lyons & Burford, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text *R-Map Div. GV200.4 .R364 1989 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Land navigation : routefinding with map & compass / Wally Keay ; edited by Nicholas Gair.
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- London : Duke of Edinburgh's Award, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text *R-Map Div. GV200.4 .K43 1989 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Deuber's, Dr. u. Prof., Geschichte der Schifffahrt im Atlantischen Ozean : zum Beweis, dass Amerika schon lange vor Chr. Colombo, und auch der Compass ... vor Flavio Gioja entdeckt worden sey : angehängt ist Chr. Colombo's eigener Bericht an Raphael Sanxis ...
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- Bamberg [Germany] : Bey C.F. Kunz, 1814.
- 1814
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text HAL (Deuber, F. X. A. Geschichte der schifffahrt im Atlantischen Ozean) Offsite Ships' compasses : including the subjects of binnacles and swinging ship. Remarks and instructions collated and arranged by Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins; Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department.
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- Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1869.
- 1869
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text KAK (United States. Hydrographic Office. [Publication 19]) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
On taking bearings : a simple treatise on bearings, what they are and how to use them from a military standpoint / by H. P. Walsh.
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- London : John Murray, 1915
- 1915
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VWI (Walsh, H. P. On taking bearings) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The ship's compass, including general magnetism, theory, practice, and calculations relating to magnetic and gyro compasses, by G. A. A. Grant and J. Klinkert.
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- [London] Routledge and K. Paul [1952]
- 1952
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFB (Grant, G. A. A. Ship's compass) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFB (Grant, G. A. A. Ship's compass) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Anschütz gyro compass : history, description, theory, practical use.
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- London : [s.n.], 1910
- 1910
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Anschuetz & Co. Anschuetz gyro compass) Offsite Dissertation sur l'origine de la boussole / par Mr D. A. Azuni ...
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- Paris : H. Nicolle, 1809.
- 1809
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Azuni, D. A. Dissertation sur l'Origine de la Boussole) Offsite An essay on the variation of the compass, shewing how far it is influenced by a change in the direction of the ship's head : with an exposition of the dangers arising to navigators from not allowing for this change of variation, interspersed with practical observations and remarks / by William Bain.
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- Edinburgh : Printed for W. Blackwood, 1817.
- 1817
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Bain, W. Essay on the variation of the compass) Offsite Compasses and how to know them, for the use of midshipmen, apprentices, and others ...
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- Glasgow, J. Brown & Son, Ltd., 1921.
- 1921
Construction et usage d'un nouveau compas azimutal a réflexion, qui réunit au double avantage de l'octant & de la boussole ...
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- Havre, Faure, 1779.
- 1779
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Degaulle, J. B. Construction et Usage d'un Nouveau Compas Azimutal à Réflexion) Offsite The prismatic compass and how to use it: a pocket manual on military magnetic compasses. With 41 illustrations, plates and diagrams. / Tr.from the French of Paul Dériaz.
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- London : E. R. Watts & son, 1917.
- 1917
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Dériaz, P. Prismatic compass and how to use it) Offsite The mariner's compass in an iron ship. how to keep it efficient, and use it intelligently with some remarks on electric installation in its relation to the compass by J. Whitly Dixon.
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- Portsmouth, Eng. : Griffin, 1898.
- 1898
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Dixon, J. W. Mariner's compass in an iron ship) Offsite Munro's Electricity and the magnetic compass, by G.E. Earl [and] J.W.S. Taylor.
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- Glasgow, J. Munro [1963]
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Earl, G. E. Munro's electricity and the magnetic compass) Offsite Elementary manual for the deviations of the compass in iron ships. Arranged in a series of questions and answers, intended for the use of seamen, adjusters of compasses, and navigation schools, and as introduction and companion to the Admiralty manual for the deviations of the compass.
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- London, J.D. Potter, 1895.
- 1895
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Evans, F. J. Elementary manual for the deviations of the compass) Offsite The ship's compass, including general magnetism, theory, practice and calculations relating to magnetic and gyro compasses, by G. A. A. Grant and J. Klinkert.
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- London, Routledge and K. Paul, 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Grant, G. A. A. Ship's compass) Offsite Admiralty manual of the gyroscopic compass 1925.
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- London, H.M. Stationery off., 1926.
- 1926
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Great Britain. Admiralty. Admiralty manual of the gyroscopic compass) Offsite Pivots and caps in compasses, by R.J. Bray, lieutenant R.N.V.R. Compass department, Admiralty.
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- London, Pub. by H.M. Stationary Off. [printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd.] 1917.
- 1917
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Great Britain. Admiralty. Pivots and caps in compasses) Offsite Admiralty manual for ascertaining and applying the deviations of the compass caused by the iron in a ship / edited by F.J. Evans ... and Archibald Smith ... ; published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
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- London : Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, and sold by J.D. Potter ..., 1863.
- 1863
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008268645Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Great Britain. Hydrographic Office. Admiralty manual) Offsite Finding the error of the marine compass on board ship. By B.F. Greene ... Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department.
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- Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1875.
- 1875
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Greene, B. F. Finding the error of the marine) Offsite McDuffie's discovery of the natural causes for the variations of the magnetic needle of the compass.
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- Durham, The Seeman Printery, 1910.
- 1910
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Guthrie, W. A. McDuffie's discovery) Offsite Magnetic compasses and magnetometers.
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- London, Hilger, 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Hine, A. Magnetic compasses and magnetometers) Offsite From lodestone to gyro-compass, by H. L. Hitchins and W. E. May.
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- London, New York, Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications [1952]
- 1952
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Hitchins, H. From lodestone to gyro-compass) Offsite From lodestone to gyro-compass, by H.L. Hitchins and W.E. May.
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- New York, Philosophical Library [1953]
- 1953
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Hitchins, H. L. From lodestone to gyro-compass) Offsite The mathematical theory of the deviations of the compass : arranged for the use of the Cadets at the U. S. Naval Academy / by J. A. Howell.
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- Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1879.
- 1879
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008857009Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Howell, J. A. Mathematical theory of the deviations) Offsite A treatise on compass compensation, a textbook for academies and colleges, and a reference manual for navigating officers [by] Captain L. V. Kielhorn ...
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- New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, inc., 1942.
- 1942
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Kielhorn, L. V. Treatise on compass compensation) Offsite El compas magnético, por el teniente de navio Gabriel Malleville ...
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- [Río Santiago] Escuela naval militar, 1932.
- 1932
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Malleville, G. Compas magnetico) Offsite Compass adjustment; a handbook for ship's officers and yachtsmen.
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- New York, Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1951.
- 1951
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (May, W. E. Compass adjustment) Offsite Ship magnetism and the magnetic compass.
- Text
- Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1963.
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Merrifield, F. G. Ship magnetism) Offsite Practical compass adjustment on iron, composite and wooden vessels; compass deviation, its various causes and proper cures, by Captain W. J. Smith.
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- Seattle, Wash. [Denny-Coryell co., printers, 1903]
- 1903
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008858700Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Smith, W. J. Practical compass adjustment on iron) Offsite Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment and compensation. [By] Nye S. Spencer ... and George F. Kucera ... April 1944. Approved by United States Navy department, Bureau of ships, Washington, D. C.
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- Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1944.
- 1944
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Spencer, N. S. Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment. 1944) Offsite Handbook of magnetic compass, adjustment and compensaton. / [By] Nye S. Spencer...and George F. Kucera...April 1945. Approved by United States Navy department, Bureau of ships, Washington, D.C.
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- Washington : U.S. Govt. print. off., 1945.
- 1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Spencer, N. S. Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment. 1945) Offsite The mariner's compass, containing a thorough explanation of the fundamental principles of its construction and the easy methods of obtaining the "correct direction" ...
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- Glasgow, J. Brown & Son, 1923.
- 1923
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXFD (Suter, E. A. Mariner's compass) Offsite Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment [by Nye S. Spencer and George F. Kucera]
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- Washington, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, 1969.
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (United States. Naval oceanographic office. Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment) Offsite Mariner's compass rectified ... enlarged with many useful additions by J. Atkinson, the whole rev. by William Mountaine.
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- London, J. Mount and T. Page, 1776.
- 1776
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD (Wakely, A. Mariner's compass rectified. 1776) Offsite Seekarte, Kompass und Radarschirm : Navigation - leicht verständlich / Ulrich Scharnow.
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- [Dresden] : Deutscher Militärverlag, [1962]
- 1962
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXF (Scharnow, U. Seekarte, Kompass und Radarschirm) Offsite Not available - In use until 2026-06-22 - Please for assistance.Theorie en beschrijving der thans bij de nederlandsche marine in gebruik zijnde zeevaartkundige werktuigen, door Dr. P.J. Kaiser ... Uitgegeven op last van Zijne Excellentie den minister van marine.
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- Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1880-
- 1880-present
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD+ (Kaiser, P. J. Theorie en beschrijving der thans bij de nederlandsche marine) Offsite Der Kompass ... von A. Schück ...
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- Hamburg, Selbst-verlag des verfassers, 1911-18.
- 1911-1918
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXFD+ (Schück, A. Kompass) Offsite
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