Seventeenth century practical mathematics : navigation by Greenvill Collins / Paul Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Paul, 1948- author.

Series:

Routledge research in early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collins, Greenvile, active 1669-1698.

Collins, Greenvile.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--Biography.

Great Britain.

Surveyors, Marine--Great Britain--Biography.

Surveyors, Marine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings', Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, cartographic and larger market of marine enthusiasts. Through shipwreck and Arctic marooning, and Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian running through Charles's capital. After John Ogilby's successful Britannia, Charles set Collins surveying his kingdom's coasts, and James set John Adair surveying in Scotland. They triangulated at sea. Subsequently, Collins persuaded James to sustain his dead brother's ambition. This, the British coast's first survey took six years. After James's flight, and William III's invasion, Collins lead the royal yacht squadron for six years more, garnering funds to publish Great Britain's Coasting Pilot. The Admiralty and civic institutions subsidised what became his own pilot. Collins aided Royal Society members in their investigations, and his new guide remained vital to navigators through the century following. Charles's cartographic promotion bloomed the most spectacularly in the atlases of Ogilby, Collins and John Flamsteed for roads, harbours, and stars"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Navigation and seamanship

Sailing-master making

Sights ashore

Curriculum to survey

Surveying

Dedicatees and subscribers

Atlas manufacture

Matter bound and unbound

Pilot influence

Yacht squadron leader.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-310766-4

1-000-45767-2

1-003-10766-4

1-000-45768-0

9781003107668

OCLC:

1255524477