Sailing school navigating science and skill, 1550-1800 Margaret E. Schotte.
Material type: TextSeries: Information culturesPublisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceISBN: 9781421429540; 1421429543Subject(s): Europe | Navigation -- Research -- Europe | Navigation -- Study and teaching -- Europe | Navigation -- Europe -- History | Navigation | Navigation -- Research | Navigation -- Study and teachingGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sailing School.DDC classification: 623.8907/04 LOC classification: VK455 | .S36 2019Online resources: Click here to access onlineIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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