The Haven-finding Art: A History of Navigation from Odysseus to Captain CookHollis and Carter for the Institute of Navigation, 1971 - 310 ページ |
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... leagues , and sixty minutes make a degree . ' Thus the faulty figure of 163 leagues had been abandoned . The table was given in words but it can be set out as follows : East - west Distance Wind ( leagues ) ( leagues ) First quarter 17 ...
... leagues , and sixty minutes make a degree . ' Thus the faulty figure of 163 leagues had been abandoned . The table was given in words but it can be set out as follows : East - west Distance Wind ( leagues ) ( leagues ) First quarter 17 ...
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... leagues , and as the direction of the course is 45 ° from north - south the westing ' must also be 122 leagues . But Madeira is also south - east of Terceira , and eight degrees farther south by altura . Hence the westing of the latter ...
... leagues , and as the direction of the course is 45 ° from north - south the westing ' must also be 122 leagues . But Madeira is also south - east of Terceira , and eight degrees farther south by altura . Hence the westing of the latter ...
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... leagues , by some 140 leagues , and some a great deal further short of Brazil . But all agreed to be within 20 ' of the line , some to the north , some to the south . ' They differed , in short , by nearly a hundred miles in their east ...
... leagues , by some 140 leagues , and some a great deal further short of Brazil . But all agreed to be within 20 ' of the line , some to the north , some to the south . ' They differed , in short , by nearly a hundred miles in their east ...
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