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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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106,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 19.02.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781137520647 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 272 |
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Beschreibungen
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.
Richard Dunn is Senior Curator of the History of Science at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK, where he has worked since 2004. <br>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.<br>Dunn and Higgitt are co-authors of Finding Longitude: How Clocks and Stars Helped Solve the Longitude Problem (2014).
"Higgitt, Dunn and their learned authors present a fascinating alternative history of longitude, latitude and navigation ... Historians of science and empire, maritime and physical histories will want it on shelves as soon as possible." - Alison Bashford, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
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