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Cosmographers and pilots of the Spanish maritime empire

Title
Cosmographers and pilots of the Spanish maritime empire / Ursula Lamb.
ISBN
1003555349 (electronic bk.)
9781003555346 (electronic bk.)
0860784738
9780860784739
Published
Aldershot, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, 1995.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings) : : illustrations, maps.)
Local Notes
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Notes
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Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 29, 2024
Series
Collected studies ; CS499.
Collected studies series ; CS499
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. The cosmographies of Pedro de Medina
II. The Quarti Partitu en Cosmographia by Alonso de Chaves: an interpretation
III. Science by litigation: a cosmographic feud
IV. La nueva ciencia geografica
V. The Spanish cosmographic juntas of the sixteenth century
VI. Cosmographers of Seville: nautical science and social experience
VII. The Sevillian lodestone: science and circumstance
VIII. The teaching of pilots and the Chronographia o Repertorio de los Tiempos
IX. Nautical scientists and their clients in Iberia (1508-1624): science from an imperial perspective
X. Dos huellas cientificas del tratado de Tordesillas
XI. Puerto de Caballos, Honduras: an abandoned choice / Gary Miller
XII. The silver masters: a link in the Spanish silver chain
XIII. Advice to the King: the route to the Indies and the South Atlantic
XIV. Argos and Polyphemus: eyes on the New World, five hundred years ago and now.
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