Navigating a hostile medium: Observations of the environment as an aid to oceanic voyaging in the age of sail

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Wilkinson, Clive (2024) Navigating a hostile medium: Observations of the environment as an aid to oceanic voyaging in the age of sail. Itinerario, 48 (1). pp. 25-41. ISSN 0165-1153

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Abstract

European navigation in the age of sail owes much to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and the development of instruments and advanced mathematical techniques. Important though these developments were, it is argued here that close observation of the environment: of the weather, ocean currents, clouds, birds, mammals, and a host of other factors played a far more important role in safe navigation from one part of the globe to another.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Special Issue 1: The View from the Sea. The Practice of Early Modern Transoceanic Commercial Navigation
Uncontrolled Keywords:	currents,geomagnetism,meteorology,navigation,winds,history,political science and international relations ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1202
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2024 13:30
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2024 18:09
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96750
DOI:	10.1017/S016511532400007X

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