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Re: The Plane Scale and Stereographic Projection in Early Navigation
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2025 Jul 15, 08:25 -0700
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2025 Jul 15, 08:25 -0700
It's probably inevitable that there will be a difference in the terminology used by practical navigators (Navlisters) and historians whose sole point of reference is the 17th century works. Here are a few texts that use "plain scale" either predominantly or exclusively
- Waters, D. W. (1958). The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times. Available at: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.51856 page 445
- van Poelje, O. (2004a). Gunter Rules in Navigation. Journal of the Oughtred Society, 13 (1), 11–21. Available at:
https://eeuwen.home.xs4all.nl/images/Pics/Kombuispraat/Pleinschaal/200404 Gunter Rules in Navigation V13-1.pdf
- Bojakowski, P. T. (2025) The plain scale from Warwick (1619). The Journal of Navigation. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0373463325000062
Robin Stuart
