Navigational Enterprises in Europe and Its Empires, 1730-1850

2016. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52063-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 259 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4434 g

Reihe: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Higgitt, Rebekah

Dunn, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Dunn is Senior Curator of the History of Science at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK, where he has worked since 2004.
Rebekah Higgitt is Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Kent, UK, and formerly Curator of History of Science at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Dunn and Higgitt are co-authors of Finding Longitude: How Clocks and Stars Helped Solve the Longitude Problem (2014).