1st Edition
Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics Navigation by Greenvill Collins
By Paul Hughes
Copyright 2022
306 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
306 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
306 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Navigation and seamanship 3. Sailing-master making 4. Sights ashore 5. Curriculum to survey 6. Surveying 7. Dedicatees and subscribers 8. Atlas manufacture 9. Matter bound and unbound 10. Pilot influence 1. Yacht squadron leader 12. Conclusion
Biography
With a PhD in engineering the master mariner, Paul Hughes provides marine consultancy to shipping, oil majors and port authorities. His publications in hydrography range from charts and tidal prediction through sailing directions.
