Author: Samuel Pepys
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Kate Loveman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198732686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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"This study uses [Pepys's] surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century"--Back cover.

Author: Samuel Halkett
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: John Thomas Payne
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: John Herbert Slater
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: Paul Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000457680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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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.

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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Author: Sir Charles Harding Firth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136241825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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First published in 1964. Before the great war Sir Charles Firth used to give from time to time a course of lectures on Macaulay's History of England. When he undertook the preparation of an illustrated edition of that work, published 1913-15 in six volumes he began to revise his lectures in order to compile from them a commentary on the History. Unfortunately the task of revision was interrupted during the war and never resumed except to publish two articles, on Macaulay's Third Chapter1 and Macaulay's Treatment of Scottish History,2 which form chapters vi and viii of this book. Collated in this volume are these works and also commentary whose object is not merely to criticise the statements made by Macaulay and the point of view adopted by him, but also to show the extent to which his conclusions had been invalidated or confirmed by later writers who had devoted their attention to particular parts of his subject, or by the new documentary materials published during the last sixty years.

Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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