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.
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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).
भाषा अंग्रेज़ी ● स्वरूप PDF ● पेज 259 ● ISBN 9781137520647 ● फाइल का आकार 2.9 MB ● संपादक Rebekah Higgitt & Richard Dunn ● प्रकाशक Palgrave Macmillan UK ● शहर London ● देश GB ● प्रकाशित 2016 ● डाउनलोड करने योग्य 24 महीने ● मुद्रा EUR ● आईडी 4689891 ● कॉपी सुरक्षा सामाजिक DRM
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