Jim Bennett

Navigation

A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the long history of navigation at sea, Jim Bennett discusses the scientific and technological developments that have enabled the accurate measurement of position and setting of directions in the oceans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 110mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 123g
• ISBN-13: 9780198733713
• ISBN-10: 0198733712
• Artikelnr.: 46846326

Autorenporträt

Jim Bennett is a historian of science who has held curatorial posts in national museums in London and in university museums in Cambridge and Oxford, where he was Director of the Museum of the History of Science. He has been President of the British Society for the History of Science and of the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. He is currently President of the Hakluyt Society. His books include The Divided Circle: a History of Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation, and Surveying (Phaidon-Christie's, 1987), and London's Leonardo: the life and work of Robert Hooke (OUP, 2003), with Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter, and Lisa Jardine.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Early navigational cultures
2: Medieval and Renaissance learning and practice
3: A mathematical science
4: Dead reckoning, longitude and time
5: The zenith of the mathematical seamen
6: The electronic age
Further Reading
Index