MANNEVILETTE, JEAN-BAPTISTE D'APRES DE.

Mémoire sur la Navigation de France aux Indies.

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1768. 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome V. Pp. 190-232. Clean and fine.

The famous French navigator Mannevillette describes here how to navigate to and from the Indies by landmarks, islands marks and instruments. He was the first French navigator to use the octant. When he wrote this paper he was "Captaine des Vaisseaux de la Compagnie des Indes. He is famous for his collection of sea-charts, the atlas "Neptune Oriental" published in 1745.

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