LEADER 04468nam 22007815 450 001 9910797769503321 005 20180925021506.0 010 $a1-137-52064-7 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137520647 035 $a(CKB)3710000000500346 035 $a(EBL)4082370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001588182 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16273433 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001588182 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14871485 035 $a(PQKB)10080580 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-52064-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4082370 035 $a(PPN)192221272 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000500346 100 $a20160219d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNavigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730?1850$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 1 $aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-56744-2 311 $a1-137-52063-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover ; Title; Copyrights; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I National Enterprises; 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire; 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c . 1750-1850; 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742-85; 5 The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study; Part II Longitude in Transnational Contexts 327 $a6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-607 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy; 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy; Part III Voyages as Test Sites; 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840; Part IV The Practice of Navigation; 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens? 327 $a12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840Index 330 $aThis book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors. 410 0$aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series 606 $aEurope-History 606 $aHistory 606 $aImperialism 606 $aWorld history 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aEuropean History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/717000 606 $aHistory of Science$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/722000 606 $aWorld History, Global and Transnational History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/719000 606 $aModern History$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/713000 606 $aTransportation$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/119000 615 0$aEurope-History. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aWorld history. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 14$aEuropean History. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aWorld History, Global and Transnational History. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aTransportation. 676 $a940 702 $aDunn$b Richard$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aHiggitt$b Rebekah$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797769503321 996 $aNavigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730?1850$93710567 997 $aUNINA