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 |
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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 |
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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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