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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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The Nautical Magazine
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Publisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Languages : en
Pages : 732
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The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle... a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Nautical Magazine for 1834
Author: Various
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108053866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
The 1834 Nautical Magazine includes reports on the Navy, international shipping, steam technology, electrical power, the Arctic and New Zealand.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108053866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
The 1834 Nautical Magazine includes reports on the Navy, international shipping, steam technology, electrical power, the Arctic and New Zealand.
List of Additions Made to the Collections in the British Museum in the Year[s] 1831-[1835].
Author: British Museum
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Annual List Of Donations And Bequests To The Trustees Of The British Museum MDCCCXXVIII. [- MDCCCXXXIII.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Catalogue of the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of London, Preserved in the Guildhall Library, London
Author: Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. Library
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Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Tides of History
Author: Michael S. Reidy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226709337
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans’ outer rim. The dominance of Her Majesty’s navy was due in no small part to collaboration between the British Admiralty, the maritime community, and the scientific elite. Together, they transformed the vast emptiness of the ocean into an ordered and bounded grid. In the process, the modern scientist emerged. Science itself expanded from a limited and local undertaking receiving parsimonious state support to worldwide and relatively well financed research involving a hierarchy of practitioners. Analyzing the economic, political, social, and scientific changes on which the British sailed to power, Tides of History shows how the British Admiralty collaborated closely not only with scholars, such as William Whewell, but also with the maritime community —sailors, local tide table makers, dockyard officials, and harbormasters—in order to systematize knowledge of the world’s oceans, coasts, ports, and estuaries. As Michael S. Reidy points out, Britain’s security and prosperity as a maritime nation depended on its ability to maneuver through the oceans and dominate coasts and channels. The practice of science and the rise of the scientist became inextricably linked to the process of European expansion.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226709337
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans’ outer rim. The dominance of Her Majesty’s navy was due in no small part to collaboration between the British Admiralty, the maritime community, and the scientific elite. Together, they transformed the vast emptiness of the ocean into an ordered and bounded grid. In the process, the modern scientist emerged. Science itself expanded from a limited and local undertaking receiving parsimonious state support to worldwide and relatively well financed research involving a hierarchy of practitioners. Analyzing the economic, political, social, and scientific changes on which the British sailed to power, Tides of History shows how the British Admiralty collaborated closely not only with scholars, such as William Whewell, but also with the maritime community —sailors, local tide table makers, dockyard officials, and harbormasters—in order to systematize knowledge of the world’s oceans, coasts, ports, and estuaries. As Michael S. Reidy points out, Britain’s security and prosperity as a maritime nation depended on its ability to maneuver through the oceans and dominate coasts and channels. The practice of science and the rise of the scientist became inextricably linked to the process of European expansion.
Sextants at Greenwich
Author: W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199532540
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book describes the history and development of navigating instruments. Before satellites these were used to measure the altitude of the sun and stars above the horizon, to determine the ship's position at sea. The book also contains a catalogue of 347 mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, and octants, sextants and artificial horizons.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199532540
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book describes the history and development of navigating instruments. Before satellites these were used to measure the altitude of the sun and stars above the horizon, to determine the ship's position at sea. The book also contains a catalogue of 347 mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, and octants, sextants and artificial horizons.