1: Early navigational cultures
2: Medieval and Renaissance learning and practice
3: A mathematical science
4: Dead reckoning, longitude and time
5: The zenith of the mathematical seamen
6: The electronic age
Further Reading
Index
Jim Bennett is a historian of science who has held curatorial posts
in national museums in London and in university museums in
Cambridge and Oxford, where he was Director of the Museum of the
History of Science. He has been President of the British Society
for the History of Science and of the Scientific Instrument
Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of
Science. He is currently President of the Hakluyt Society. His
books include The
Divided Circle: a History of Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation,
and Surveying (Phaidon-Christie's, 1987), and London's Leonardo:
the life and work of Robert Hooke (OUP, 2003), with Michael
Cooper,
Michael Hunter, and Lisa Jardine.
This book covers all the major developments in navigation
adequately, and in a manner easily accessible to the general
public. It is not the result of new research or insight, and does
not have that pretention. I recommend it to those with an interest
in the history of navigation, and it will be an excellent
starting-point for those wanting to pursue the subject further.
*W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, The International Journal of Maritime
History*
Provides a fascinating insight into how people have navigated on
the sea for hundreds of years.
*Adventure Travel*
This elegant and compelling narrative, spanning all periods,
cultures, and geographical regions, provides a remarkably
accessible introduction to the concepts and technology of
navigation.
*Captain M. K. Barritt Royal Navy, former Hydrographer of the
Navy*
A masterly and comprehensive survey of navigational techniques
across many centuries of technical skill and astute practical
innovation. The book combines lucid exposition of the principal
maritime methods with fascinating commentary on the historical
relation between navigators' mastery of calculation, observation
and improvisation.
*Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge*
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