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To that you can add: "Rutters of the Sea" and "Science and the Techniques of Navigation in the Renaissance". Both still standard works after some fifty years in spite of numerous excellent later works (Davids and Mörzer Bruyns in the Netherlands, Schnall and Sauer in Germany, Boistel and Chapuis in France,Cuesta Domingo and Laguarda Trias in Spain, Capasso in Italy, Lamb in the US, just to name a few). If I am unsure about a detail in early navigation I first try to find out more in one of Water's books, and most of the time I find it.
It's sad to learn that he died, but from his example we can see that immersing yourself in the history of navigation seems to be very healthy; so you may live to an old age.
Wolfgang
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