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Navigation: a cross-staff or cross-bow, and a sailor using the device. Drawing, n.d., after Edmund Gunter, 1624.
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Navigation: a cross-staff or cross-bow, and a sailor using the device. Drawing, n.d., after Edmund Gunter, 1624.

Edmund Gunter

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Lettering: Taken from Edmund Gunter's description of the cross staffe cross bowe &c&c published in London 1624

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