Sailing school : navigating science and skill, 1550-1800
Title:
Sailing school : navigating science and skill, 1550-1800
Information cultures
Author:
Schotte, Margaret E., 1976- author.
ISBN:
9781421429533
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Physical Description:
xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Series:
Information cultures
Contents:
Prologue. A model education -- 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 -- Epilogue. Sailing by the book, ca. 1800.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-285) and index.
Field 805:
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