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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1: Dead Reckoning
Chapter 2: Needle and Stone
Chapter 3: The Rose of the Winds
Chapter 4: Variation and Dip
Chapter 5: Edmond Halley, Polymath
Chapter 6: To Compass the Globe
Chapter 7: Halleyan Lines
Chapter 8: Dr. Gowin Knight and His Magnetic Machine
Chapter 9: Knight’s Compass
Chapter 10: The Shocks of Tempestuous Seas
Chapter 11: Any Old Iron, Any Old Iron
Chapter 12: The Book of Bearings
Chapter 13: The Flinders Bar
Chapter 14: Soft Iron, Hard Iron
Chapter 15: “An Evil So Pregnant with Mischief”
Chapter 16: Deviation, the Hydra-Headed Monster
Chapter 17: The “Inextricable Entangled Web”
Chapter 18: Gray’s Binnacle
Chapter 19: Thomson’s Compass and Binnacle
Chapter 20: The Selling of a Compass
Chapter 21: A Question of Liquidity
Epilogue: From Needle to Spinning Top
Appendix: Deviation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Alan Gurney
Copyright
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