Entries from National Maritime Museum collections blog tagged with 'navigation'
Navigating culture, 1550-1650
I am a doctoral student at Cambridge University and recently undertook a summer internship at the Royal Observatory. My internship project studied navigational instruments as cultural artefacts - as objects which illuminate the attitudes and beliefs of those who made,...
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Posted by Richard Blakemore, ROG intern on October 16, 2009 10:47 AM
Printmakers and star-gazers
In 2009 the Museum celebrates the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), which commemorates the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo in 1609 as well as, amongst other things, the first moon landing (1969). It is hoped that...
Posted by Samantha Oliphant, Digital Content Coordinator on January 23, 2009 10:39 AM
On not getting lost
Retiring from my travels as Caird North American Fellow I feel I must report that an anonymous boy has been scribbling over library books in the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island. I am enormously grateful to him....
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Posted by Dr Sophie Gilmartin, Caird North American Fellow on January 5, 2009 12:10 PM
New acquisition: A prize sextant
One of the newest additions to the Museum's fine collection of navigational instruments is this sextant from the turn of the twentieth century. For those who don't know, a sextant is an instrument used to measure angles at sea...
Posted by Richard Dunn, Curator of History of Navigation on December 22, 2008 9:00 AM
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