Titlebook: Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850; Richard Dunn (Senior Curator for the History of Sc Book 2015 The Editor(s)

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Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?art, most tell of the ‘science’ of navigation and most put the start of scientific navigation with the advent of the ... Obviously these developments, from intuition to reliance on a mathematically based procedure, were not instantaneous or without problems.

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The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, ,. 1750–1850. argued that other seafaring nations no longer used the meridian of Tenerife as their reference and that Dutch seafarers also rarely used it as a prime meridian. Naval officers had already switched to the Greenwich meridian because they often used British charts.

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A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesytoo far west. Even if he had subsequently been able to compute exactly where he was, there was considerable uncertainty as to the position of the islands that he was trying to avoid.. The Admiral’s fate was an exemplar of the importance of positional accuracy both at sea . on land.

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Introductionude at sea. The desire for heroic stories about individuals — their discoveries, inventions and triumphs — has often reduced this history to that of one man, John Harrison, a clockmaker whose work inspired the development of the marine chronometer. The essays in this collection challenge such assump