Global Positioning System Reference
In-Depth Information
Largely a biography of Lambton and Everest, this account of the Great Trig-
onometric Survey is a good read.
Kelsey, H. 2000.
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press.
Kemp, P., ed. 1976.
Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
. Oxford: Oxford Univer-
sity Press.
Useful for entries on marine navigational instruments, past and present.
Kibble, T. W. B., and F. H. Berkshire. 1985.
Classical Mechanics
. Harlow, Essex, UK:
Longman.
King, A. D. 1998. ''Inertial Navigation: Forty Years of Evolution.''
GEC Review
13:140-49.
Knights, E. M. 2001. ''Navigation before Netscape.''
History Magazine
, Oct./Nov.
Konvitz, J. 1987.
Cartography in France: 1660 to 1848
. Chicago: University of Chi-
cago Press.
Lacroix, W. F. G. 1998.
Africa in Antiquity: A Linguistic and Toponymic Analysis of
Ptolemy's Map of Africa, Together with a Discussion of Ophir, Punt and Hanno's
Voyage
. Saarbrücken, Germany: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik.
A very detailed technical analysis of the geography of Africa, as viewed from
classical antiquity. Appendix 4 provides accounts of the Carthaginian explora-
tions.
Lambeck, K. 1980.
The Earth's Variable Rotation: Geophysical Causes and Conse-
quences.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Landes, D. S. 2000.
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
Lawrence, A. 1998.
Modern Inertial Technology: Navigation, Guidance, and Control
.
New York: Springer-Verlag.
Leick, A. 2004.
GPS Satellite Surveying
. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Letham, A. 2008.
GPS Made Easy: Using Global Positioning Systems in the Outdoors
.
Surrey, BC: Rocky Mountain Books.
Lewis, D. 1994.
We, the Navigators
. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
A thorough technical account of Polynesian navigation methods written by a
trained navigator.
Lewis, M. J. T. 2001.
Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome
. Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press.
Includes a discussion of ancient tunnels and Roman roads, both of which
required accurate surveying as a prerequisite—especially tunnels that were dug
from both ends and needing to meet up in the middle.
Leuliette, E. W., R. S. Nerem, and G. L. Russell. 2002. ''Detecting Time Variations
in Gravity Associated with Climate Change.''
Journal of Geophysical Research
107:2112.
Lindberg, D. C., ed. 1978.
Science in the Middle Ages
. Chicago: University of Chi-
cago Press.
Liu, J. 1997.
Survey Review for the Civil Engineer
. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
