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Compass.
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- Maker :
- ANONYMOUS
- Place :
- Unknown
- Date :
- c. 1890-1900
- Color :
- Uncoloured
- Height mm.:
- 160
- Width mm.:
- 160
- Condition :
- Height of the box: 10 cm
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 29036
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A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half points and decorated N & E points.
The cardan suspension system, also called a gimbal, is a pivotal support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis. If simultaneously assembled three rings, one on another by orthogonal rotation axes, an object placed inside the third ring always remains horizontal, regardless of the engaged turns of the other two rings.
The application of this gimbal system navigation was proverbial, since until that moment when, for reasons of bad weather, the ship tends to heel or continuously up by the effect of waves, a traditional compass was useless, making it virtually impossible navigation.
The gimbal system allowed the compass to remain horizontal, therefore, a continuing role, regardless of the boat's position.The gimbal compasses are still used today in both marine and aviation.
De zee cuften tufschen Dovere en Orfords nesse, daer de Teemse de Vermaerde Rivire van Lonen gelegens is. . .
A detailed chart of the English Channel coastland. Decorated by a colorful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters. A very early edition rare Dutch text edition of this landmark contribution to the science of navigation. Waghenaer's own personal experiences as a pilot along European coasts were used to compile the Spiegel der Zeevaerdt, the first edition of which was published in Dutch at Leyden in 1584/85 by the House of Plantin. Although advertis...
$3.000
Maker : WAGHENAER, L. J.
Place : Leiden, Plantijn
Date : 1585
Flaggen aller seefahrenden potenzen und nationen…
A highly decorative and beautiful print with 139 flags of the sea-faring nations, factions, and trading companies. Among the more interesting flags are those of the Dutch West India Company (G.WC. /Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie) and the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C. / Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie). This plate is probably derived from a Dutch flag print issued by Cornelis Danckerts c. 1700.
$1.000
Maker : HOMANN, J.B.
Place : Nuremberg
Date : 1750
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius'.
$5.500
Maker : ORTELIUS, A.
Place : Antwerp
Date : 1579
Hollandia Septentrionalis.
An attractive miniature map of the north Holland, northwards from Amsterdam to the Zijpe polder, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It features a decorative title, sea hatching, elaborate cursive script, dykes and polders, some towns etc.This example is from the Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum. Bertius (1565-1629) was a Flemish cartographer, theologian, historian and geographer. Although he published much in the fields of history, theolog...
$150
Maker : LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1606
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