Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires 1730-1850. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt.
• Other Names: Dunn, Richard; Higgitt, Rebekah
• 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?
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)
• Subjects: 623.89/094; History; Navigation -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Ocean travel -- History -- 18th century; Navigation -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Ocean travel -- History -- 19th century; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science; Navigation; Ocean travel; Science -- History; History -- General; History -- World; History -- Modern -- General; Technology & Engineering -- Power Resources -- General; History of science; Colonialism & imperialism; General & world history; History: earliest times to present day; Power generation & distribution; Imperialism; World history; History, Modern; History -- Europe -- General; European history; Atlantic Ocean -- Navigation -- History -- 18th century; Atlantic Ocean -- Navigation -- History -- 19th century; Atlantic Ocean; Europe; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137520647; 1137520647; 9781137520630; 1137520639
• Related ISBNs: 9781349567447; 1137520639
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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