Navigational Enterprises in Europe and Its Empires, 1730-1850.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies .
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies .
Cover -- Title -- Copyrights -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I National Enterprises -- 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire -- 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c . 1750-1850 -- 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742-85 -- 5 The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study -- Part II Longitude in Transnational Contexts -- 6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-60 -- 7 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy -- 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy -- Part III Voyages as Test Sites -- 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France -- 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840 -- Part IV The Practice of Navigation -- 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens? -- 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840 -- Index.