Annotated Bibliography - The Science of Navigation - page 244

Bartlett, T. 2009. The Topic of Navigation: Traditional Navigation Techniques for
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Bawlf, S. 2003. The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake . Vancouver, BC: Douglas &
McIntyre.
An interesting and controversial version of the epic journey of Francis Drake
around the world. Written by a former politician, it posits political intrigue and
reads like a thriller.
Bedini, S. A., ed. 1998. Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration . New York:
Da Capo Press.
A really excellent encyclopedia covering every conceivable topic relating to the
European Age of Exploration from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth
centuries.
Beer, A., et al. 1961. ''An 8th-Century Meridian Line: I-Hsing's Chain of Gnomons
and the Prehistory of the Metric System.'' Vistas in Astronomy 4:3-28.
Berggren, J. L., and A. Jones. 2000. Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation
of the Theoretical Chapters . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Bergreen, L. 2007. Marco Polo—From Venice to Xanadu . New York: Alfred A.
Knopf.
A detailed account of the historically influential wanderings of the famous
Venetian merchant.
Boorstin, D. J. 1983. The Discoverers . New York: Random House.
Bouvier, A., and M. Wadhwa. 2010. ''The Age of the Solar System Redefined by the
Oldest Pb-Pb Age of a Meteoritic Inclusion.'' Nature Geoscience 3:637-41.
Breitenberger, E. 1984. ''Gauss's Geodesy and the Axiom of Parallels.'' Archive for
History of Exact Sciences 31:273-89.
Brown, D., ed. 2003. The Greatest Exploration Stories Ever Told . Guildford, CT:
Lyons Press.
Bu√et, B. A. 2000. ''The Earth's Core and the Geodynamo.'' Science 288:2007-12.
Burnham, R. 1979. Burnham's Celestial Handbook . New York: Dover.
Buttimer, A., and L. Wallin, eds. 1999. Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspec-
tive . Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.
Campbell, T. 1981. Early Maps . New York: Abbeville Press.
Carrigan C. R., and D. Gubbins. 1979. ''The Source of the Earth's Magnetic Field.''
Scientific American 240 (Feb.): 118-29.
Chambert, J.-L., ed. 1999. Chapter 9 in A History of Algorithms . Berlin: Springer-
Verlag.
Chevallier, R. 1984. ''The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to
Tacitus.'' Arctic 37:341-46.
An interesting academic treatise that analyzes the influence of Pytheas in
shaping the world view of classical antiquity.
Clausing, D. J. 2007. The Aviator's Guide to Navigation . 4th ed. New York: McGraw-
Hill.
Cook, A. 1998. Edmond Halley . Oxford: Oxford University Press.