Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics: Navigation by Greenvill Collins

ISBN-13: 9780367620448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 290 str.

Paul Hughes

Opis

Greenvill Collins’s biography, on marine navigation, is aimed at cartographers. Through Arctic shipwreck, Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian through London. Kings Charles and James supported Collins’s British coast survey and William its publication.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.