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Navigation book review in New York Times (1895)
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2017 Jul 10, 22:38 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2017 Jul 10, 22:38 -0700
While browsing the New York Times archive http://spiderbites.nytimes.com/ I noticed an 1895 review of "Elements of Navigation" by Henderson: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE5DE1E30E333A25754C0A9619C94649ED7CF Henderson says, "The need of a short, simple, and yet comprehensive book on the art of navigating a ship has led the author to undertake the preparation of the present work. The extant treatises on the subject are of two kinds: first, introductory and simple, but incomplete; and, second, exhaustive, but incomprehensible to the beginner. The aim of this book is to instruct the beginner, leading him step by step from the first operations to the perfection of the art as found in the Sumner method... Students who have tried to learn navigation from books like Captain Lecky's inimitable 'Wrinkles in Practical Navigation,' which is addressed to navigators only, or from Bowditch's 'American Navigator,' which is only for mathematicians, will, it is hoped, appreciate this little book." The book is available online: https://archive.org/stream/elementsnavigat01hendgoog#page/n3/mode/2up
