images from The Quadrant and the Quill, diagrams, portraits and titlepages

see also The Title Page, Navigation

see also The Conquest of the Atlantic 1933

THE VICTORIA AND THE TRITON, MAGELLAN AND Navigation

W.H.COBB, How the World was Disciovered

TOP ROW

 Alhazen, The Optics (Opticae Thesaurus...) , Eusebius Episcopius & Nikolai, Basel, 1572, titlepage with examples of the application of optics.
 
 
Adams Small Quadrant, from the Navigation section of the Royal Encyclopedia 1788 - 1790, detail 9 x 14cms  

Charles Saltonstall, The Navigator, printed by Hurlock, London in 1636 and a fine indication of the self-image of seafaring folk.

BOTTOM ROW

This book is a sensational structure of drawn grids for navigators with the most minor and, to me, incomprehensible variables. I have owned it for thirty years without understanding it, but loved it for its dogged accuracy and superb colour variables within the Grid. It measures 36 x 22cms.

singles

illustration to published papers, Royal Academy of Naples 1798

William Johnson, The Art of Navigation 1620