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| 100 | 1 | _aHiggitt, Rebekah. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aNavigational Enterprises in Europe and Its Empires, 1730-1850. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aLondon : _bPalgrave Macmillan UK, _c2015. |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2015. | |
| 300 | _a1 online resource (262 pages) | ||
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| 490 | 1 | _aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies | |
| 505 | 0 | _aCover -- 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. | |
| 588 | _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aHistory, Modern. | |
| 655 | 4 | _aElectronic books. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aDunn, Richard. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aLoparo, Kenneth A. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aHiggitt, Rebekah. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aDunn, Richard. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aLoparo, Kenneth A. | |
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_iPrint version: _aHiggitt, Rebekah _tNavigational Enterprises in Europe and Its Empires, 1730-1850 _dLondon : Palgrave Macmillan UK,c2015 _z9781137520630 |
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