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Navigation: an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a back-staff or Davis's sextant. Drawing after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

Astronomy: a quadrant and a sextant. Engraving.

Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine longitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.

Zebrafish posterior lateral line development

Navigation: several quadrants and a sextant. Engraving.

Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.

Astronomy: a diagram showing how to determine latitude. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1851, after himself.

Navigation: a man using a Jacob's staff (cross staff), various other measuring devices at his feet. Woodcut, 16--.

Navigation: a compass, and details of its use. Engraving.

Zebrafish sensory neuromasts

The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)

Le Cordier, Samson

Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].

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The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

Finch, Sir John (1584-1660)

Zebrafish posterior lateral line development

Le Cordier, Samson

Certaine errors in navigation detected / And corrected by Edw: Wright. [With many additions that were not in the former edition. As appeareth in the next pages. (The division of the whole art of navigation. An addition touching the variation of the compasse)].