Annotated Bibliography - The Science of Navigation - page 249

Love, R. S. 2006. Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery, 1415-1800 . Westport,
CT: Greenwood.
Maloney, E. S. 2006. Chapter 17 in Chapman Piloting and Seamanship . 65th ed.
New York: Hearst Books.
Mason, S. F. 1962. A History of the Sciences . New York: Macmillan.
A good summary of the development of the natural sciences. Chapter 21 covers
the application of science to navigation.
McCarthy, D. D. 1991. ''Astronomical Time.'' Proceedings of the IEEE 79:915-20.
McCarthy, D. D., and P. K. Seidelmann. 2009. Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic
Physics . Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH.
Menzies, G. 2002. 1421: The Year China Discovered the World . London: Bantam
Press.
Controversial and probably wrong, but nevertheless interesting, this topic tries
to persuade us that the Chinese circumnavigated the world a century before
Magellan. The topic argues well that the Chinese had the nautical capability,
but it fails to convince me that they chose to employ it as claimed.
Mills, G. B. 1980. ''Analysis of Random Errors in Horizontal Sextant Angles.''
Master's thesis, Navy Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.
Milton, G. 1999. Nathaniel's Nutmeg . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
A very readable history about the seventeenth-century conflict between the
English and the Dutch over the Spice Islands.
Mo√att, K. 1993. ''Cosmic Dynamos: From Alpha to Omega.'' Physics World 6
(May): 38-42.
Morrison, J. E. 2007. The Astrolabe . Rehoboth Beach, DE: Janus.
Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J. 1994. The Cross-Sta√: History and Development of a Naviga-
tional Instrument . Amsterdam: Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum.
Murdin, P. 2008. Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to
Measure the Earth . New York: Springer.
Nagendra, H. 1999. ''Mapmakers.'' Resonance: Journal of Science Education 4:8-15.
Needham, J. 1959. Science and Civilization in China . Vol. 3, Mathematics and the
Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Owen, R. 1979. Great Explorers. London: Artus Books.
Papenfuse, E. C., and J. M. Coale. 2003. The Maryland State Archives Atlas of
Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
Petrie, G., and T. J. M. Kennie. 1987. ''Terrain Modeling in Surveying and Civil
Engineering.'' Computer Aided Design 19:171-87.
Price, A. G., ed. 1971. The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific . New
York: Dover.
A well-edited version of the great eighteenth-century explorer's three voyages
around the world. We expect such explorers to be expert mariners and deter-
mined men, but Cook stands out for his surprisingly enlightened views.
Pugh, J. C. 1975. Surveying for Field Scientists . London: Methuen.
An excellent overview of pre-GPS techniques.