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Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800 

by Margaret Schotte

Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they creat

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9781421429533