Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics

Navigation by Greenvill Collins

By:

Paul Hughes

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Research in Early Modern History

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This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings’, Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, cartographic and larger market of marine enthusiasts. Through shipwreck and Arctic marooning, and Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian running through Charles’s capital. After John Ogilby’s successful Britannia, Charles set Collins surveying his kingdom’s coasts, and James set John Adair surveying in Scotland. They triangulated at sea. Subsequently, Collins persuaded James to sustain his dead brother’s ambition. This, the British coast’s first survey took six years. After James’s flight, and William III’s invasion, Collins lead the royal yacht squadron for six years more, garnering funds to publish Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot. The Admiralty and civic institutions subsidised what became his own pilot. Collins aided Royal Society members in their investigations, and his new guide remained vital to navigators through the century following. Charles’s cartographic promotion bloomed the most spectacularly in the atlases of Ogilby, Collins and John Flamsteed for roads, harbours, and stars.

Author Biography:

With a PhD in engineering the master mariner, Paul Hughes provides marine consultancy to shipping, oil majors and port authorities. His publications in hydrography range from charts and tidal prediction through sailing directions.

Release date Australia

May 31st, 2023

Author

Paul Hughes

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

10 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 24 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

290

Series

Routledge Research in Early Modern History

ISBN-13

9780367620479

Product ID

36511186

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