Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were...
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This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.
Autoren-Porträt
Richard Dunn is Senior Curator of the History of Science at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK, where he has worked since 2004. Rebekah Higgitt is Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Kent, UK, and formerly Curator of History of Science at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Dunn and Higgitt are co-authors of Finding Longitude: How Clocks and Stars Helped Solve the Longitude Problem (2014).
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2015, 1st ed. 2016., 259 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Higgitt, Rebekah; Dunn, Richard; Jones, Peter
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137520639
- ISBN-13: 9781137520630
Sprache:
Englisch
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