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Navigation --- Nautical astronomy --- Nautical astronomy. --- Navigation.
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Astronomia. --- Nautical astronomy. --- Nautical astronomy. --- Navigation. --- Navigation.
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Même si aujourd'hui les appareils électroniques sont très fiables, il reste indispensable (et parfois obligatoire) de connaître les techniques du positionnement à l'aide d'un sextant, d'une montre, d'une calculatrice et des éphémérides. Vous trouverez dans ce manuel l'explication du principe de la droite de hauteur qui base la navigation sur l'observation du Soleil, des planètes et des étoiles. Les observations et les calculs sont consignés sur des supports imaginés spécialement par l'auteur pour la pratique de la visée au sextant, pendant la période de l'apprentissage pédagogique.
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Successful long-distance navigation depends on knowing latitude and longitude, and the determination of longitude depends on knowing the exact time at some fixed point on the earth's surface. Since Newton it had been hoped that a method based on accurate prediction of the moon's orbit would give such a time. Building on the work of Euler, Thomas Mayer and others, the astronomer and mathematician Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811) was able to devise such a method and yearly publication of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris placed it in the hands of every ship's captain. First published in 1767 and reissued here in the revised third edition of 1802, the present work provided the necessary tables and instructions. The development of rugged and accurate chronometers eventually displaced Maskelyne's method, but navigators continued to make use of it for many decades. This edition of the tables notably formed part of the library of the Beagle on Darwin's famous voyage.
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