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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850

Peter Jones, Jones(Edited by)Rebekah Higgitt, Higgitt(Edited by)Richard Dunn, Dunn(Edited by)
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This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.

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Palgrave Macmillan
1349567434 / 9781349567430
Paperback
03/06/2017
272 pages
140 x 216 mm, 320 grams