Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

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Rebekah Higgitt, Richard Dunn, Peter Jones
Springer, 19 feb. 2016 - 259 pagina's
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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.

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Inhoudsopgave

1 Introduction
1
Part I National Enterprises
12
Part II Longitude in Transnational Contexts
88
Part III Voyages as Test Sites
157
Part IV The Practice of Navigation
198
Index
249
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Académie Alexander Dalrymple astronomical Berthoud Board of Longitude Borda Britain British Bureau des longitudes Cádiz calculations Cambridge Captain Cassini charts chronometers Clairaut clocks dead reckoning determination of longitude determining longitude Dutch East India Company East Indiamen eighteenth century étalons expedition Ferrner finding longitude Fleurieu Florijn France French geodesy geodetic Greenwich Guy Boistel Harrison’s History Howse Ibid Jean-Charles de Borda Jérôme Lalande John Journal Karel Davids Keulen L’astronomie nautique Lacaille Lalande latitude logs London longi longitude at sea Longitude Committee longitude determination Löwenstern lunar distance method Marine maritime mathematician mathematics Mayer’s measurement ment meridian metrology Ministre Moon Moon’s Nautical Almanac navigation networks Nevil Maskelyne Newton nineteenth century observations observatories octant Pacific Paris pendulum Philosophical Transactions Pierre Bouguer Pingré practice published Resa i Europa RMARS role Royal Society Russian Schiavon sextant ships St Petersburg standard Survey Swedish techniques timekeepers tion toise triangulation tude University Press voyage watch

Over de auteur (2016)

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).

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TitelNavigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
RedacteursRebekah Higgitt, Richard Dunn, Peter Jones
Editiegeïllustreerd
UitgeverSpringer, 2016
ISBN1137520647, 9781137520647
Lengte259 pagina's
  
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