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Surveying and charting of the seas
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ISBN: 0444422781 9786611756130 128175613X 0080870759 9780444422781 9780080870755 Year: 1984 Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier,

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A practical book for those engaged in marine surveying and charting activities who must acquire, process and present data for hydrographic or engineering purposes. It covers the latest instrumental and equipment development, automation and computerization, as well as conventional methods for those without access to sophisticated instrumentation.

A buccaneer's atlas : Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner : a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682
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ISBN: 0520054105 058521316X Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus : medieval European knowledge of America.
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ISBN: 080186660X 0801875471 9780801875472 9780801866609 Year: 2002 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press


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Surveyors of empire : Samuel Holland, J.W.F. Des Barres and the making of the Atlantic Neptune
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ISBN: 9780773538153 Year: 2011 Publisher: Montréal McGill-Queen's University Press


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To master the boundless sea
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ISBN: 1469640457 1469640465 9781469640464 9781469640457 9781469640440 1469640449 9798890847881 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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"As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like 'sea power' derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles, but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context"--


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Les portulans. Cartes marines du XIIIe au XVIIe siècle
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ISBN: 2092905384 2826401327 9782092905388 9782826401322 Year: 1984 Publisher: Fribourg Office du Livre

Charting a course into the digital era
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ISBN: 0309051398 9786610246878 1280246871 030958731X 0585149291 9780585149295 9780309051392 Year: 1994 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press


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Surveyors of empire
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ISBN: 0773538151 1283583879 0773587349 9786613896322 9780773587342 9780773538153 Year: 2011 Publisher: Montréal McGill-Queen's University Press

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Using research from both sides of the Atlantic, Stephen Hornsby examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the Seven Years War, as well as advancements in military and scientific equipment used in surveying. At the same time, he follows the land speculation of two leading surveyors, Samuel Holland and J.F.W. Des Barres, and the publication history of The Atlantic Neptune. Richly illustrated with images from The Atlantic Neptune and earlier maps, Surveyors of Empire is an insightful account of the relationship between science and imperialism, and the British shaping of the Atlantic world.


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The Van Keulen cartography Amsterdam 1680-1885.
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ISBN: 9064698074 Year: 2005 Publisher: Alphen aan den Rijn Canaletto

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