(Title Page to) [Seyr-i sefâinde müstamel kevâkib atlasi : Kevâkib ne sûretle bulunur ve pusula tashihi ile mevkii-yi sefine tayininde nasil istimâl olunur].

• Main Author: Yüzbasisi, Güverte
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Matbaa-i Bahriye 1919
• Subjects: North Pole
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Title page to [Seyr-i sefâinde müstamel kevâkib atlasi : Kevâkib ne sûretle bulunur ve pusula tashihi ile mevkii-yi sefine tayininde nasil istimâl olunur]. In Ottoman script (Old Turkish in Arabic letters). With engraved floral symbol. Star atlas for the Ottoman navigators. First and only Ottoman edition of this extremely rare chromolithographed anonymous star atlas for navigators and scientists prepared based on the Arabic star charts and catalogues. Translated into Ottoman Turkish - Old Turkish with Arabic letters - in 1919 by the Ottoman warrant officer [Güverte Yüzbasisi] Sidki. Title translates to: [The celestial atlas used in the navigation at sea : Guide to stars and how to determine the coordinates of the ship with the compass]. Translated by Sidki [Deck captain] into Ottoman Turkish (Old Turkish in Arabic letters). Published by Matbaa-i Bahriye [i.e., The Printing House of the Naval Forces]. Oblong folio. Bound in board, covered in burgundy linen. Text and ornamentation both gilt but worn. Text comprised of title, date of printing and printing house. Volume is 61 unnumbered pages. Includes a title page, Muqaddima [i.e., Introduction], explanatory text on methods for using maps, a monthly celestial chart of the North Pole, a table containing annual changes and distances among stars according to the year 1918, a list of degrees of the fixed stars and names of the constellations in parallel Arabic and Greek, observations of the stars, descriptions, calculations, tables of the constellations such as "Davis", other European diagrams, a procedure for determining meridians and the equator by means of a compass, a dictionary of the stars and the constellations parallel in Arabic and Latin, and twenty-five numbered celestial charts. Each chart shows the current position of stars in the night sky in an indigo chromolithographed printing, with the facing page featuring the stars drawn as constellations with Arabic names. Selected charts: Stars near the North Pole.; Dübb'ül-Ekber [i.e. Ursa Major] and Dübb-ü ...