Sailing school navigating science and skill, 1550-1800
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Information cultures
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2037259.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- From the water to the writing book
- Amsterdam, ca. 1600
- "By the shortest path": developing mathematical rules
- Dieppe, 1675
- Hands-on theory along the Thames
- London, 1683
- Paper sailors, classroom lessons
- The Netherlands, ca. 1710
- Lieutenant Riou is put to the test
- The Southern Indian Ocean, 1789.