Sailing School
Sailing School Hands-on science in the Age of Exploration.Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in Naval and Maritime Science and Technology by the North American Society for Oceanic History and the…
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Sailing School
Hands-on science in the Age of Exploration.Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in Naval and Maritime Science and Technology by the North American Society for Oceanic History and the Leo Gershoy Prize by the American Historical AssociationThroughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they created hybrid models that would have a lasting impact on applied science.In Sailing School, a richly illustrated comparative study of this transformative period, Margaret E. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors.
Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how
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