The Safegarde Of Saylers Or Great Rutter Contayning The Courses Dystances Deapths Soundings Flouds And Ebbes With The Marks For The Entring Of Sundry Harboroughs Both Of England Fraunce Spaine Ireland Flaunders And The Soundes Of Denmarke With Other Necessarie Rules Of Common Nauigation Translated Out Of Dutch By Robert Norman A Translation Of The Work By Cornelis Anthonisz Known As Het Leeskaartboek Van Wisbuy And Consisting Of Die Caerte Vander See Om Oost Ende West Te Seylen And Die Caerte Vander Suyder See With Diagrams B L
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The Safegarde of Saylers or great Rutter Contayning the courses dystances deapths soundings flouds and ebbes with the marks for the entring of sundry harboroughs both of England Fraunce Spaine Ireland Flaunders and the Soundes of Denmarke with other necessarie rules of common nauigation Translated out of Dutch by Robert Norman A translation of the work by Cornelis Anthonisz known as Het Leeskaartboek van Wisbuy and consisting of Die Caerte vander See om oost ende west te seylen and Die Caerte vander Suyder See With diagrams B L
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1640 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0020780245 |
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The Safegarde of Saylers Or Great Rutter
Author | : Cornelis Antoniszoon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1590 |
Genre | : Navigation |
ISBN | : OCLC:837483455 |
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Books and Readers 1588 1590
Author | : Betty Chandler Hunt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105004869611 |
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Certaine Errors in Navigation Arising Either of the Ordinarie Erroneous Making Or Vsing of the Sea Chart Compasse Crosse Staffe and Tables of Declination of the Sunne and Fixed Starres Detected and Corrected The Voyage of the Right Ho George Earle of Cumberl to the Azores c
Author | : Edward Wright |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1599 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:503892206 |
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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars
Author | : Mark Monmonier |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226534329 |
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In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.
A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes
Author | : John Napier |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-02-24 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1482618311 |
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John Napier published his treatise on the discovery of logarithms in 1614. It was written in Latin, the scholarly language of his day, under the title Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. The importance of the work was quickly perceived and an English language translation by Edward Wright followed two years later, with the title A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes. A further English edition followed in 1618. It is said that this book freed the world from a logjam of calculations. John Napier spent more than twenty years working alone on his system of logarithms, during a time when the multiplication and division of large numbers, as well as the finding of square roots, was considered to be extremely difficult. Because of his discovery of logarithms, these tedious mathematical operations could be replaced by the much easier processes of simple addition, subtraction and division by two. Never again would astronomers, architects, merchants and navigators become bogged down with calculations that were simply too difficult or time consuming to carry out. Seeking a name for his discovery, Napier turned to Greek, coining the word Logarithm from logos (Greek for ratio or reckoning) and arithmos (Greek for number). Johannes Kepler, the imperial mathematician and astronomer at Prague, was one of the first to realize the enormous importance of Naperian logarithms. Initially indifferent, his attitude was quickly changed to one of great enthusiasm when he saw that tables of logarithms could considerably ease the burden of difficult astronomical calculations. The French mathematician and astronomer Pierre Simon Laplace said that logarithms, '...by shortening the labours, doubled the life of the astronomer.' At a congress held in Edinburgh to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the publication of this book, it was remarked that '...no previous work had led up to it; nothing had foreshadowed it or heralded its arrival. It stands isolated, breaking upon human thought abruptly, without borrowing from the works of other intellects or following known lines of mathematical thought.' Thus has posterity judged the worth of John Napier, Baron of Merchiston, and his logarithms.
Trigonometric Delights
Author | : Eli Maor |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781400842827 |
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Trigonometry has always been the black sheep of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view. Rejecting the usual arid descriptions of sine, cosine, and their trigonometric relatives, he brings the subject to life in a compelling blend of history, biography, and mathematics. He presents both a survey of the main elements of trigonometry and a unique account of its vital contribution to science and social development. Woven together in a tapestry of entertaining stories, scientific curiosities, and educational insights, the book more than lives up to the title Trigonometric Delights. Maor, whose previous books have demystified the concept of infinity and the unusual number "e," begins by examining the "proto-trigonometry" of the Egyptian pyramid builders. He shows how Greek astronomers developed the first true trigonometry. He traces the slow emergence of modern, analytical trigonometry, recounting its colorful origins in Renaissance Europe's quest for more accurate artillery, more precise clocks, and more pleasing musical instruments. Along the way, we see trigonometry at work in, for example, the struggle of the famous mapmaker Gerardus Mercator to represent the curved earth on a flat sheet of paper; we see how M. C. Escher used geometric progressions in his art; and we learn how the toy Spirograph uses epicycles and hypocycles. Maor also sketches the lives of some of the intriguing figures who have shaped four thousand years of trigonometric history. We meet, for instance, the Renaissance scholar Regiomontanus, who is rumored to have been poisoned for insulting a colleague, and Maria Agnesi, an eighteenth-century Italian genius who gave up mathematics to work with the poor--but not before she investigated a special curve that, due to mistranslation, bears the unfortunate name "the witch of Agnesi." The book is richly illustrated, including rare prints from the author's own collection. Trigonometric Delights will change forever our view of a once dreaded subject.
The Scientific Renaissance 1450 1630
Author | : Marie Boas Hall |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-04-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780486144993 |
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A noted historian of science examines the Coperican revolution, the anatomical work of Vesalius, the work of Paracelsus, Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system, the effects of Galileo's telescopic discoveries, more.