Author: Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTENPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Twee Journalen van twee verscheyde Voyagien ... van by Noorden om, langhs Noorwegen, de Nordt-Caep, Laplandt, Finlandt, Ruslandt ... na Vay-Gats, gedaen in de Juren 1594 en 1595, etc
Author: Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTENPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics
Author: Paul HughesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000457680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
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.
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: Linden to Locke
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description