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Origin: Italy
Location: National Maritime Museum collection.
Material: Case made of ivory.
Compass mounting is brass gimbal ring - iron needle - brass pivot cap.
Needle attached to vellum - paper divided into thirty-two points and hand-painted. East direction decorated with cross symbolizing Holy Land <link>

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The traverse board is used in Northern Europe by 16th century to record speed or direction during a  four-hour watch; info transferred to logbook or on a chalkboard.
Pegs record every half hour during the course with a corresponding one inserted to record the approximate speed.
Origin: Germany or Scandinavia
Material: lead; string; wood
Measurements: 305 x 214 x 38 mm
Credit National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London <link>

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Place of origin:Italy (possibly, made)

Date:1550-1600 (made)

Artist/Maker:Unknown

Materials and Techniques:Glass in turned ivory frame

Museum number:83-1880

Gallery location:In Storage
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Chart of the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, and the northwestern African coast
Creator: Abenzara, Judah
Language: Latin
Material: color, vellum ; 68 x 106 cm
Location: Yale Library Beinecke Digital Collection <link>

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Mercator projection ca. 1620 (Septentrionalium terrarum)

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Mercator projection ca. 1620 (Septentrionalium terrarum)

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Hand coloured engraving.
Maker: Mercator, Gerardus
First published in Part III of Mercators Atlas
records attempts by explorers Frobisher and Davis to find the Northwest Passage.
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Materials: brass; glass; bone
Location: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London,
Multi-purpose scope six parts configured as telescope,a simple microscope, or flea-glass. Includes sun lens and multiple image lens.
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Maker: Sutton, Henry
Place made: London, England
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
Material: brass; paper; wood
quadrant is an instrument that is used to measure angles up to 90°. It provides latitude measurements based on altitude of stars or other celestial body.<link>

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Discovered 2014 found in wreckage of Esmeralda ship part of Vasco da Gama's fleet off coast of Oman.  Points to the use of astrolabes in the late 15th or early 16th century.

Owner: (David L. Mearns – Blue Water Recoveries llc)
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Period of Use: 400 - 1500
Material: ebony
Maker: Hendrik Noordyk  Location: Amsterdam (courtesy The Mariners' Museum catalog -
1999.0011.000001A)
Cross-staff early navigational tool provided latitude and direction through measuring the angle between sun and horizon.
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Maker: Johann Schoner
Source Royal Astronomical Society
One of only two known examples of celestial globes.
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Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
Title: Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ('The Ambassadors')
Medium: Oil on oak
Location:  The National Gallery Trafalgar Square, London
The objects depicted on shelf include a celestial globe,  sundial and other celestial instruments.<link>

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Title Plate - The Mariners Mirrour, 1588

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Title Plate - The Mariners Mirrour, 1588

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Author: Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer
Title Plate: 1588
First printed atlas of sea charts "Die Speighel de Zeevaert"
Location: England
Creator:  Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer Ashley, Anthony translator;
Follows that of the original "Spieghel" with its display of nautical instruments: quadrant, astrolabe, cross-staff, sand glass, lead line, compasses, and mariner's compass.  Royal arms were added
Credit: British Library <link>

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Description:  First detailed set of navigational directions for the North American coast. Includes - Chart of the sea-coasts of New England
Made: 1671
Material: Bound
Artist/Maker: Seller, John
Location: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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Origin:  Rome, Italy
Material:Metal Brass
Location: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Size:  |99 x 11 x 97.5 mm
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Date made 1735
Maker: Harrison
Material: Materials bronze; lignum vitae; oak; steel; brass
Measurements: 673 mm
The first of Harrison’s series of five sea-clocks (chronometers) was completed in 1735
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Date: 1588
Original Artist/Maker Hondius, Jodocus Waghenaer, Lucas Janz
English: Anthony Ashley
Measurements:54 x 38.5 cm
Material: Bound Sheet Color Engraving
Description: Dutch English Spanish
The chart is graduated for latitude and longitude
The chart decorated with two ships and one sea creature.
Popularized 'waggoner' became the English term for a book of charts.
Location: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London <link>