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English: Title page of Edward Wright (1599). Certaine Errors in Navigation, arising either of the Ordinarie Erroneous Making or Vsing of the Sea Chart, Compasse, Crosse Staffe, and Tables of Declination of the Sunne, and Fixed Starres Detected and Corrected. (The Voyage of the Right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores, &c.). London: Printed ... [by Valentine Simmes and W. White] for Ed. Agas.
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Fig. 5.1 of Mark [Stephen] Monmonier (2004). Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection, 65. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. From http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nvwu4Ba_Qp0C&pg=PA63&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=iMF8eEcNW1HsNQH8NTq-2DGGuVs#PPA65,M1.
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1599.
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Edward Wright
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