Le Ve'ritable Art de Naviguer par Le Quartier de Reduction, avec lequel on peut reduire les Courses des Vaisseaux en mer ; & enrichi de plusieures raretes qui n'ont pas encore ete decourvertes .... Revu, corrige & augmente. DERNIERE EDITION
by S. Aubin, Sier G. Blondel [ Blondel Saint-Aubin, Guillaume ]
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Margaret E. Schotte in her "Sailing School Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800" (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) discusses nautical manuals and methods in depth. She notes "As the French Gentleman innovator Guillaume Blondel, sieur de Saint-Aubin, declared in no uncertain terms in his 1673 Tresor de la Navigation, 'At the present, one is not a good Pilot if one does not work with Sines, and with Logarithms.'' He viewed this as 'the current Method, and the most correct [juste].' (Despite Blondel's commitment to numbers, his first book [ offered here in a later edition ] about 'The True Art of Navigating with the Sinical Quadrant.' enjoyed far more success. That text [first published in 1671] - which made it possible to avoid trigonometry completely - was republished at least fourteen times over the following century.)" The popularity of these works was brought on at least in part by the fact that "many readers, and not just mariners, found these tables [ of logarithms] daunting ... and were thus inspired to find instrumental workarounds ... including graphical quadrants ... as in Blondel's 'pioneering work on the sinical quadrant' [offered here in a later edition]." (pp 64-5, 89, 210).
For as many editions as this work went through, and the obvious utility of it, there are very few copies that seemed to have been gathered by institutions. Most are listed in OCLC with only a single copy (with the more common 'naviger' instead of the 'naviguer' on this copy). This edition found in a single copy in OCLC at the New York Public Library.
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- Le Ve'ritable Art de Naviguer par Le Quartier de Reduction, avec lequel on peut reduire les Courses des Vaisseaux en mer ; & enrichi de plusieures raretes qui n'ont pas encore ete decourvertes .... Revu, corrige & augmente. DERNIERE EDITION
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- S. Aubin, Sier G. Blondel [ Blondel Saint-Aubin, Guillaume ]
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- Vellum
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- Used - Very Good
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- Chez P. J. D. G. Faure, Imprimeur de la Marine & de la Ville, Grande Rue S. Michel
- Place of Publication
- Havre de Grace
- Date Published
- 1768
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