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- Title
Navigating a Hostile Medium: Observations of the Environment As an Aid to Oceanic Voyaging in the Age of Sail.
- Authors
Wilkinson, Clive
- 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.
- Subjects
OCEAN currents; SCIENTIFIC Revolution; SEVENTEENTH century; MATHEMATICAL instruments; SAILS
- Publication
Itinerario, 2024, Vol 48, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0165-1153
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S016511532400007X