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BOURNE (William). A REGIMENT for the Sea and Other Writings on Navigation. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1963. - BOURNE (William) A REGIMENT for the Sea and Other Writings on Navigation . Edited by E. G. R. Taylor. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1963. XXXVI, 464 pp.: il.; 225 mm. Publisher's binding with dust jacket. William Bourne (Gravesend, c. 1535-1582), English gunner and mathematician, is the author of one of the most important works on navigation in Elizabethan England. The Regiment for the Sea , first published in 1574, went through numerous editions during the sixteenth century and provided a practical guide to astronomical navigation for English mariners. This critical edition, prepared by E. G. R. Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of London, was published by the Hakluyt Society and gathers together the Regiment and other writings on navigation by Bourne.