Title Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires 1730-1850 / edited by Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) Series Cambridge imperial & post-colonial studies Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Contents Cover ; Title; Copyrights; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I National Enterprises; 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire; 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c . 1750-1850; 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742-85; 5 The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study; Part II Longitude in Transnational Contexts 6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-607 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy; 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy; Part III Voyages as Test Sites; 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840; Part IV The Practice of Navigation; 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens? Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Navigation -- Europe -- History -- 18th century Ocean travel -- History -- 18th century Navigation -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Ocean travel -- History -- 19th century History. history (discipline) History of science. Colonialism & imperialism. General & world history. History: earliest times to present day. Power generation & distribution. European history. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. Navigation Ocean travel SUBJECT Atlantic Ocean -- Navigation -- History -- 18th century Atlantic Ocean -- Navigation -- History -- 19th century Subject Atlantic Ocean Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Dunn, Richard, 1966- editor. Higgitt, Rebekah, editor. ISBN 9781137520647 1137520647 9781137520630 1137520639

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