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Sailing School Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800 / Margaret E. Schotte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schotte, Margaret E., 1976- author.
- Series:
- Information Cultures Series
- Information cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navigation--Europe--History.
- Navigation.
- Nautical astronomy--History.
- Nautical astronomy.
- Navigation--Study and teaching--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion.
- Contents:
- Prologue. A model education
- From the water to the writing book - Amsterdam, ca. 1600
- "By the shortest path" : developing mathematical rules - Dieppe, 1675
- Hands-on theory along the Thames - London, 1683
- Paper sailors, classroom lessons - The Netherlands, ca. 1710
- Lieutenant Riou is put to the test - The Southern Indian Ocean, 1789
- Epilogue. Sailing by the book, ca. 1800.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-285) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2954-3
- OCLC:
- 1107493881
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