The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem (1921)
Robinson, John, 1846-1925, comp, Peabody Museum of Salem · Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum · leaf 190
4 feetused on Salem ships Carolina Augusta and Formosa, withtwenty-four 56 pound weights, for weighing pepper on theSumatra coast, used early to middle nineteenth century. 96 … DAVIS QUADRANTSAt lelt, old form with solid shade vane, abcut 1750; at right, later form with dated 1768. rlass in shade vane. Sextants. The Sextant was suggested by Captain Campbell, H. B. M.Navy, in 1757, in order to measure greater angles than waspossible with the Quadrant (Octant). The sextants…
Naval art and science · Ships
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