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Category : Navy-yards and naval stations
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: Great Britain. Admiralty
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey
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Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375041551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Author: John Dick Scott
Publisher: London : Stationery Office
ISBN:
Category : Arms transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
Publisher: G. E. Desbarats
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: John Jane Smith Wharton
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Author: John Jane Smith Wharton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

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Author: Paul Hughes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000457672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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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.

Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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