• Title
  Scale of sines for navigation purposes said to have belonged to Captain Cook
• Call number
  SAFE/DR 12
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1770
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  449216
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 folding ivory ruler, brass hinged - 24 cm. long, folded
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  This relic is a set with the sextant and pair of parallel rules DR 11 & DR 13. A letter filed with DR 11 dated 19.4.1906, signed by EA Burney staes that he believed that Captain Cook gave these relics to his grandfather, Dr William Burney, the then headmaster and founder of the Royal Academy, Gosport. Dr William Burney (1762-1832) established his Academy, or school, in 1791.
  Source: ML card catalogue
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823687
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  1770 / WB -- engraved on brass hinge
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  Cook, James, 1728-1779--Relics.
  
• Topic
  navigational instruments
  rulers (measuring)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Learning Services Program display 2014-2015 - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2014 - 1 January, 2015)

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