Lectures In Navigation, by Lieutenant Ernest G. Draper, U.S.N.R.F
by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
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About this eBook
- Author
- Draper, Ernest Gallaudet, 1885-1954
- Title
- Lectures in Navigation
- Credits
- Produced by Viv, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VK: Naval science: Navigation, Merchant marine
- Subject
- Navigation
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27642
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27642
- Release Date
- December 28, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LECTURES IN NAVIGATION — by
- 2.Lieutenant ERNEST G. DRAPER, U.S.N.R.F.
- 3.FOREWORD
- 4.LIST OF BOOKS CONSULTED
- 5.PREFACE
- 6.CONTENTS
- 7.WEEK I—PILOTING — TUESDAY LECTURE — The Compass — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Pelorus, Parallel Rulers, The Lead, Sounding Machine, Dividers And Log — THURSDAY LECTURE — The Chart — FRIDAY LECTURE — The Protractor And Sextant — SATURDAY LECTURE — Fixes, Angles By Bearings And Sextant
- 8.WEEK II—DEAD RECKONING — TUESDAY LECTURE — Latitude And Longitude — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Useful Tables—Plane And Traverse Sailing — THURSDAY LECTURE — Examples On Plane And Traverse Sailing ( Continued ) — FRIDAY LECTURE — Mercator Sailing — SATURDAY LECTURE — Great Circle Sailing—the Chronometer
- 9.WEEK III—CELESTIAL NAVIGATION — TUESDAY LECTURE — Celestial Co-ordinates, Equinoctial System, Etc. — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Time By The Sun—Mean Time, Solar Time, Conversion, Etc. — THURSDAY LECTURE — Sidereal Time—Right Ascension — FRIDAY LECTURE — The Nautical Almanac — SATURDAY LECTURE — Correction Of Observed Altitudes
- 10.WEEK IV—NAVIGATION — TUESDAY LECTURE — The Line Of Position — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Latitude By Meridian Altitude — THURSDAY LECTURE — Azimuths Of The Sun — FRIDAY LECTURE — Marc St. Hilaire Method By A Sun Sight — SATURDAY LECTURE — Examples On Marc St. Hilaire Method By A Sun Sight
- 11.WEEK V—NAVIGATION — TUESDAY LECTURE — A Short Talk On The Planets And Stars — Identification Of Stars — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Latitude by Meridian Altitude of a Star—Latitude by Polaris — (Pole or North Star) — THURSDAY LECTURE — Marc St. Hilaire Method by a Star Sight — FRIDAY LECTURE — Examples: Latitude by Meridian Altitude of a Star, Latitude by Polaris, Marc St. Hilaire Method by a Star Sight — SATURDAY LECTURE — Longitude by Chronometer Sight of the Sun (Time Sight)
- 12.WEEK VI—NAVIGATION — TUESDAY LECTURE — Longitude by Chronometer Sight of a Star — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Examples on Longitude by Chronometer Sight of a Star — THURSDAY LECTURE — Latitude by ex-meridian Altitude of the Sun — FRIDAY LECTURE — Examples: Latitude by ex-meridian Altitude of the Sun — SATURDAY LECTURE — Finding the Watch Time of Local Apparent Noon
- 13.WEEK VII—NAVIGATION — TUESDAY LECTURE — Compass Error by an Azimuth — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Correcting Longitude by a Factor — THURSDAY LECTURE — The Navigator's Routine—a Day's Work at Sea — A Day's Work at Sea — FRIDAY LECTURE — Day's Work — SATURDAY LECTURE — Day's Work
- 14.WEEK VIII—NAVIGATION — MONDAY LECTURE — Day's Work — TUESDAY LECTURE — Day's Work — WEDNESDAY LECTURE — Day's Work — THURSDAY LECTURE — Day's Work — ADDITIONAL LECTURE — Compass Adjustment
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