Project Gutenberg 2008-12-28 Public domain in the USA. 262 Draper, Ernest Gallaudet 1885 1954 Lectures in Navigation Produced by Viv, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Lectures in Navigation" by Ernest Gallaudet Draper is a scientific publication likely written in the early 20th century. This work has been designed as a textbook for training individuals in the fundamentals of navigation, particularly for junior officers in the United States Naval Auxiliary Reserve. The content primarily covers essential topics related to navigation such as the use of a compass, celestial navigation, and various instruments like sextants and charts that are used in maritime navigation. The opening of the book presents a foreword and a preface that set the context for the lectures. Draper explains the purpose of the lectures—to provide a comprehensible guide for the officers to learn navigation quickly and effectively. He outlines the intended structure of the course, mentioning areas of study like piloting, dead reckoning, celestial navigation, and the practical exercises that will accompany the theoretical instruction. The introduction reveals a collaborative effort, with acknowledgments to contributors and references to key navigational texts, highlighting the educational value and practical application the book aims to achieve in helping officers master the complexities of navigation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 83.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Navigation VK Text Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: Science - General Category: Engineering & Technology Category: How To ... 376571 2025-06-11T11:27:56.365151 text/html 399221 2008-12-28T06:23:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 584715 2008-12-28T06:23:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 785973 2025-06-11T11:28:08.960070 application/epub+zip 788443 2025-06-11T11:28:00.569099 application/epub+zip 177946 2025-06-11T11:27:58.783113 application/epub+zip 967454 2025-06-11T11:28:14.120053 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 926689 2025-06-11T11:28:07.602066 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 292381 2022-09-13T03:52:54.003869 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 279868 2025-06-11T11:27:54.618140 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 278915 2008-12-28T06:23:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 88956 2008-12-28T06:23:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 281956 2008-12-28T06:23:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 89081 2008-12-28T06:23:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19904 2025-06-11T11:28:14.317022 application/rdf+xml 12119 2025-06-11T11:27:59.422089 image/jpeg 3135 2025-06-11T11:27:59.101088 image/jpeg 712401 2025-06-11T11:27:56.512132 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog