Discovery, innovation, and the Victorian admiralty : paper navigators /: paper navigators. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Erika Behrisch.
• Authors: Behrisch, Erika
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Triangulating the New: Discovery, Innovation, Bureaucracy.- Chapter 2: 'A monotonous and arduous service': Science, Surveying, and Servitude Aboard.- Chapter 3: "Considerable Magnetic Disturbance': The Niger Expedition, Science, and Networks of Influence.- Chapter 4: En Route with the British Admiralty's Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849).- Chapter 5: Private Inventions, Public Purse: Innovation and the Admiralty.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Notes in the Margin.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 359.00941; Naval art and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031067495
• Related ISBNs: 9783031067488
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