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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt
| Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 940 |
| Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe-History
History Imperialism World history History, Modern European History History of Science Imperialism and Colonialism World History, Global and Transnational History Modern History Transportation |
| ISBN | 1-137-52064-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; 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
6 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? 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797769503321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 / / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt
| Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 / / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 940 |
| Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe-History
History Imperialism World history History, Modern European History History of Science Imperialism and Colonialism World History, Global and Transnational History Modern History Transportation |
| ISBN | 1-137-52064-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; 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
6 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? 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811998003321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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