Author: Derek HowsePublisher: Museum
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Five Hundred Years of Nautical Science, 1400-1900
Author: Derek HowsePublisher: Museum
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Five Hundred Years of Nautical Science 1400-1900
Author: Derek Hawse500 Years of Nautical Science 1400-1900
Author: Maritime Science and Technology: Changing Our World
Author: Nigel WatsonPublisher: Lloyd's Register
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book addresses some key questions - Did the marine sector drive the developing technologies? Or did it just adopt them? It would appear that the former is the case - as the industry has moved from sail to steam, from steam to internal combustion engines, from wood to steel and to increasing sizes and types of specialist vessels - the pioneers of naval architects and marine engineers have applied the latest technologies, and our global society has benefited.
Five Hundred Years of Nautical Science
Author: Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830
Author: Dr Richard HardingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135364869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
From the author of "Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century" and "The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815", this book serves as a single- volume survey of war at sea and the expansion of naval power in the 18th century. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on 18th century European history, and for amateur and professional military historians, and for navy colleges, and navy and ex-navy professionals.
Naval History 1680850
Author: Richard HardingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351125893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
This collection of essays sets out to present a sample of the rich diversity of writings on naval history in this period. The collection covers subjects ranging from strategy, operations and tactics, to administration, technology and the maritime economy. Within this volume the reader will be able to see essays that influenced the development of modern naval history through to samples of some of the latest research.
Five Hundred Years of Nautical Science, 1400-1500
Author: Derek HowseAnatomy of a Naval Disaster
Author: James PritchardPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773565531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Pritchard describes the domestic and international political circumstances in France that gave rise to the expedition, outlining strategy and politics in the context of colonial defence and continental ambition. He reconstructs the events that contributed to the failure of the expedition - human and institutional weakness, weather, spoiled provisions, disease, and the death of the commanding admiral. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster exposes the ambitions and frailties of men, the arbitrariness of success, and the limits of power in the eighteenth century.
Thomas Harriot and His World
Author: Robert FoxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351879197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot edited by Professor Robert Fox is based on the annual Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College, Oxford between 2000 and 2009. It complements the previous volume, published as Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science in 2000. The focus in several of the papers is on Harriot's outstanding achievements as a mathematician; others consider why he has never received the recognition accorded to his great contemporary, Galileo; others again examine his association with his entrepreneurial patron Walter Ralegh and his contributions to the intensely practical world of exploration and seamanship, as exemplified in his voyage to the coast of present-day North Carolina in 1585. The volume adds significantly to our understanding of a true Renaissance man who wrote accomplished Latin, earned the respect of Europe's leading mathematicians and astronomers, and moved easily in circles close to the English court and whose 'Brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia' (1588) was the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language.