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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850, PDF eBook

Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850 PDF

Edited by Rebekah Higgitt, Richard Dunn, Kenneth A. Loparo

Part of the Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series

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This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.

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