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In offering this little book to our young naval officers, the author is guided by a wish to help them in what he knows by experience they consider the most troublesome part of their studies. He would give this help by teaching them to regard scientific and technical terms not as necessary evils, but as very useful servants, by the rational use of which a definiteness of conception may be acquired not otherwise attainable. It is also his hope in some small measure to aid in banishing a prevailing looseness of phraseology, and in bringing about a consistency of usage in nautical terms.
Under each term, besides what is necessary to explain it fully in its different bearings, will be found an analysis of what is to be learned on the subject by systematic reading. In the arrangement of the articles the strictly alphabetical order has sometimes been departed from as regards the subdivisions of a general head, and what appears in each case the natural order adopted.
Most of the works on Navigation in common use have been consulted in drawing up this Glossary; but the author must particularly mention his obligations to Lieutenant Raper's 'Practice of Navigation.' In the articles belonging to the most important ancillary science he is deeply indebted to Sir John F. W. Herschel's 'Outlines of Astronomy.'
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