Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics: Navigation by Greenvill Collins

by Paul Hughes

Book Overview

Greenvill Collins's biography, on marine navigation, is aimed at cartographers. Through Arctic shipwreck, Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian through London. Kings Charles and James supported Collins's British coast survey and William its publication.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367620472
• ISBN13: 9780367620479
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"