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1855 "Great Circle" Navigation - rare imprint with Map

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1855 "Great Circle" Navigation - rare imprint with Map

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Description

Heading: (Maritime, Navigation – Map)
Author: Towson, John Thomas
Title: The Principles of Great Circle & Composite Sailing, A Paper Read before the Literary and Philosophical Society…With observations made from more recent Voyages
Place Published: Liverpool, England
Publisher:“Printed for Private Circulation”
Date Published: 1855
Description:

30pp., illustrated with frontispiece, 10 x 24" folding world map, "Chart showing Composite & Great Circle Tracks". Lacking front wrapper; rear (blank) wrapper is detached but present. With a faint owner's pencil signature and date (June 4, 1855) on verso of the first map panel.

Very rare. WorldCat shows only a single copy in the US and one other in Australia. A chronometer and watch-maker by trade, as well as a mathematical genius, after writing one of the first books on Daguerreotype photography, Towson turned to Navigation and became the foremost expert in sailing ships along a "great circle" route of the globe rather than in straight lines, which greatly cut the amount of time required for long sea voyages.

This method required complex mathematical calculations, so Towon published a book of Tables for the benefit of sea captains not adept in advanced mathematics. He followed that popular tome with this privately-printed pamphlet, explaining his Navigation system; this enabled the Captain of the clipper ship Marco Polo, carrying emigrants from England to Australia in 1851, to cut a thousand miles, and a full month, off the conventional route of straight-line navigating, becoming the first ship to make the voyage and return to England in less than six months.

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1855 "Great Circle" Navigation - rare imprint with Map

Name: 1855 \"Great Circle\" Navigation - rare imprint with Map
SKU: 73215299
Price: 150 USD
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