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- Title
FINDING A TEACHER OF NAVIGATION ABROAD IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VENICE: A STUDY OF THE CIRCULATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
- Authors
McEvoy, Timothy
- Abstract
This case study explores the 1766 decision by the government of Venetian Republic to hire former Royal Navy officer and educator Arthur Edgcombe to serve as master of the Scuola Nautica, a school established to train merchant seamen between the ages of 14 and 16. The teaching of English navigation skills helped bolster Venice's participation in international commerce and trade. Edgcombe's son Thomas continued to teach at the school after his father until the fall of Venice in 1797.
- Subjects
ITALY; MERCHANT mariners; STUDY &; teaching of navigation; SAILORS; EDGCOMBE, Arthur; EDGCOMBE, Thomas; HISTORY of education policy; HISTORY of Venice, Italy, 1508-1797; EDUCATION
- Publication
History of Science, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 1, p100
- ISSN
0073-2753
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1177/007327531305100105