The Cross-Staff : History & Development [Navigation] - 1994

W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns - The Cross-Staff : History and Development of a Navigational Instrument - Amsterdam/Zutphen, Vereninging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaar Museum/Rijsmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum/Walburg Instituut, 1994 - 1e druk - 127p. - Softcover: geplastificeerde, polychroom geïllustreerde papieren band met rechte rug - 22x25cm - Zo goed als nieuw exemplaar.

• Willem Fredrik Jacob Mörzer Bruyns, (°1943) is a Dutch historian of navigational science, specializing in the history of navigational instruments; he has also published on the history of the Dutch in the Arctic in the nineteenth century. He rose to be Senior Curator of Navigation at the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum before his retirement in 2005. Since 1972, Mörzer Bruyns published several books and a hundred-and-fifteen articles in scholarly journals, on the history of navigation and navigational instruments, and on the exploration of the Dutch in the Arctic, in the nineteenth century. He wrote seventy-five book reviews on these subjects in scholarly journals. (Source: Wikipedia)

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