The history of seafaring : navigating the world's oceans /
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| Author / Creator: | Johnson, Donald S., 1932- |
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| Imprint: | London : Conway, 2007. |
| Description: | 374 p. : col. ill., maps ; 35 x 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7530289 |
Table of Contents:
- The Dawn of Navigation
- Seafarers of Oceania
- Idea and Art of Pacific Navigation
- Arctic Seafarers
- The First Boats and ships
- The Seafarers Natural World
- understanding the winds
- Comprehending the currents
- Accounting for the tides
- Dealing with the Weather
- Watching the heavens
- Latitude Sailing
- Establishing Location
- Finding Direction
- Natural Phenomenon
- Ancient Sailing Routes and Peripli
- Egyptian voyages to East Africa
- Phoenicians: the first open sea navigation
- From Peripli to Rutters and Sailing Directions
- the Ancient Mediterranean
- Cosmography of the Ancients
- Pythagorean School
- Alexandrian School
- Roman Contributions
- Second Alexandrian School
- Map Projections
- Navigation In the Middle Ages
- New Views in the Medeval World
- Merchant Ships in the Middle Ages
- Dividing the Horizon: From Wind-Rose to Compass Card
- Michael of Rhodes
- Arab Dhow
- Arab Science Spreads Northward
- Indian Ocean - the Silk Road's Watery Path
- Early Navigation In Northern Waters
- King Arthur of England
- Age of the Saints
- The Enigma of Currents
- The Voyages of Othere and Wulfstan
- Soundings
- Viking Routes and Long Distance Navigation
- Sea Kings of the North
- Winds of the World
- The King's Mirror
- Nicholas of Lynn
- Viking Ships
- Chinese Junks and the Treasure Ships of Zhen He
- Advances In Sciences
- Scientists Open The Skies
- History of the Compass
- Celestial Ephemera for Navigation
- The Mystery of Magnetism
- The Log
- Iberian Ventures In The Atlantic
- Beyond the Pillars of Hercules
- Linking the Atlantic With The Indian Ocean
- From the Quadrant to the Cross-Staff
- Westward, Across the Atlantic Ocean
- Dead Reckoning
- Dividing the Ocean Sea: The Treaty of Tordesillas
- Ships of the Age of Discovery
- From the Art of Navigation to a Technical Science
- Image of the World In Word and Line
- Leading Theorists for a New Discovery
- Plotting the Tides
- The Measurers for a New Cosmography
- From the Astrolabe to the Sextant
- Lighthouses and Seamarks
- By Icey Sea to the Mighty Kingdom of Cathay
- North America: an Impenetrable Barrier
- Beyond Bleak Russia's Northernmost Confines
- Failures Unending Ocean Perils
- From Doctrine and Discovery to a Place on the Map
- The Dutch Flute
- The World Encompassed
- Circumnavigation Succeeded
- Foreign Trade Expanded
- Exploration Continued
- East Indiamen
- From a Sandglass to the Chronometer
- Endeavours Extended
- The Challenge of Longitude
- New Horizons
- Dangerous Ground
- Exploration Ships in the Pacific and the Antarctic
- The Sea on Paper
- Frontiers Unlimited
- New Goals: Scientific Ventures
- The Clipper
- The Ice-choked Seas
- Vega and the First Cargo Steamers
- First Circumnavigation Single-handed
- Epilogue: the Electronic Age.
