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A History Of Geographical Discovery In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries By Edward Heawood
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Book Synopsis A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by : Edward Heawood
Download or read book A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Edward Heawood and published by Cambridge : University Press. This book was released on 1912 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics by : Paul Hughes
Download or read book Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics written by Paul Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Eighteenth Century English Novel by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century English Novel written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early novelists such as Samuel Richardson, Daniel Defoe, and Laurence Sterne helped create the formula for the modern novel.
Book Synopsis Background to Discovery by : Derek Howse
Download or read book Background to Discovery written by Derek Howse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime exploration and the political, economic, and scientific motives behind it. Writing essays on the literary and artistic response to the voyages as well, the contributors collectively provide a rich source for historians, geographers, and anyone interested in the history of voyage and travel. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Book Synopsis Enlightenment in Ruins by : Michael Griffin
Download or read book Enlightenment in Ruins written by Michael Griffin and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity. As a consequence he has been characterized as a passive purveyor of enlightenment thought, a hack, a harried translator of the French enlightenment for an English audience, an ideological lackey, and a subtle ironist. In poetry, he is either a compliant pastoralist or an engaged social critic. Yet Goldsmith’s career is as complex and as contradictory as the enlightenment currents across which he wrote, and there is in Goldsmith’s oeuvre a set of themes—including his opposition to the new imperialism and to glibly declared principles of liberty—which this book addresses as a manifestation of his Irishness. Michael Griffin places Goldsmith in two contexts: one is the intellectual and political culture in which he worked as a professional author living in London; the other is that of his nationality and his as yet unstudied Jacobite politics. Enlightenment in Ruins thereby reveals a body of work that is compellingly marked by tensions and transits between Irishness and Englishness, between poetic and professional imperatives, and between cultural and scientific spheres.
Book Synopsis Virtual Voyages by : Paul Longley Arthur
Download or read book Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
Download or read book Iowa Journal of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Iowa Journal of History and Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Historical Review by : John Franklin Jameson
Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Download or read book Scottish Geographical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Scottish Geographical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Indians, North of Mexico by : William Harvey Miner
Download or read book The American Indians, North of Mexico written by William Harvey Miner and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spindrift written by Geoffrey Callender and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1915 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of the British Empire: Historiography by : Robin W. Winks
Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Empire: Historiography written by Robin W. Winks and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the shape and the development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography by : Robin Winks
Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography written by Robin Winks and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-10-21 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. The distinguished team of contributors discuss the many and diverse elements which have influenced writings on the Empire: the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. They demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging enquiry about international relations, the uses of power, and impacts and counterimpacts between settler groups and native peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.
Book Synopsis A Political and Social History of Modern Europe by : Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes
Download or read book A Political and Social History of Modern Europe written by Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explorers of the Late Renaissance and the Enlightenment by : Britannica Educational Publishing
Download or read book Explorers of the Late Renaissance and the Enlightenment written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britanncia Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Age of Exploration came to a close, the world seemed to be a significantly smaller place than it once was, with more major landmasses identified on the global map. Yet questions and unknowns remained and details had yet to be filled in. Armed with greater knowledge and better equipment than their predecessors, explorers in the late Renaissance and Enlightenment eras took up the reins, with some discovering new routes and lands still while others carefully surveyed or settled lands already known. This lively volume details the lives of such individuals as Henry Hudson, Vitus Bering, James Cook, and Daniel Boone, among many others, as well as the explorations and discoveries of which they were a part.
