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From: Wolfgang Köberer (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 10:00:31 EDT
Dear George,
there is - of course - an ample literature on celestial navigation before
Sumner. For instance:
Albuquerque, Luís de
Astronomical navigation.
Lisboa, 1988
Forbes, Eric G.
The Birth of Navigational Science.
London, 1974
and
Hewson, J.B.
A history of the practice of navigation.
Glasgow, 1951
If you don`t limit yourself to English texts there are still more works (and
the following are just a sample):
Garcia Franco, Salvador
Historia del Arte y Ciencia de Navegar.
Madrid, 1947
Guyot, Edmond
Histoire de la détermination des longitudes.
La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1955
Davids, C.A.
Zeewezen en wetenschap.
Amsterdam, 1986
Andresen, Peter Boy
Die Geschichte der Monddistanzen.
Hamburg, 1924.
One of the best works - with a long chapter on the moon and its use in
navigation - is:
Marguet, F,
Histoire générale de la navigation du XVe au XXe sičcle.
Paris 1931
It is a bit biased on the french side of the channel, though. The good thing
is that you can download the complete book from the web site of the École
Nationale de la Marine Marchande de Marseille:
http://hydro.marseille.free.fr/histoire_nav_marguet/histoire_nav_marguet.htm
Best regards,
Wolfgang
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