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Sir James Thornhill's sketch-book travel journal of 1711 : a visit to East Anglia and the Low Countries Thornhill, James,-Sir, 1975 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 74.035(42)"17"
An explanation of the painting in the Royal Hospital at Greenwich by Sir James Thornhill Thornhill, James,-Sir, 1730? • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 7Thornhill
Horological dialogues Smith, John, 1962 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11
An Introduction to astronomy and geography : being a plain and easie treatise of the globes Leybourn, William 1675 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52
The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem : with annotations and an astronomical appendix Sherburne, Edward 1675 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 52.09:094
The English pilot : the third book. Describing ... the oriental navigation ... Seller, John 1675 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26)"16"
Eben-ezer : or a small monument of great mercy appearing in the miraculous deliverance of ... from the miserable slavery of Algiers ... Okeley, William 1675 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1(61)
With every good wish for Christmas and the New Year : National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 069(26:421.6)(089.7)"383Christmas"
The Act of tonnage and poundage, and book of rates : with several statutes at large relating to the customs Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1675 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
Atlas maritimus : or the sea-atlas; being a book of maritime charts. Describing ... most of the known parts of the world ... Seller, John 1675 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(26)"16"
The Burning Fen : first and second parts Roggeveen, Arent 1971 • OVERSIZE • 2 copies available. 527.83(729)
Norwood's epitome : being the application of the doctrine of triangles, in certain problems, concerning the use of the plain seachart, and Mercator's chart : being the two most usual kinds of sailing : with a table of artificial sines and tangents, with the complements arithmetical of sines, supplying the use of secants : to radius 10,00000, and the every degree and minute of the quadrant : also the logarithms of absolute numbers from 1 to 2000; with a table of the right ascension and declination of the sun, and certain principle fixed stars : with other tables useful in navigation : wherunto is added, the farther use of the forenamed tables, in questions of navigation, astronomy and geography : as aslo an universal almanac /by Richard Norwood, Reader of the Mathematicks. Norwood, Richard, • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527:514.116
An exact narrative of the tryals of the pyrats: and all the proceedings at the late goal-delivery of the Admiralty, held in the Old-Bayly, on Thursday and Saturday, the 7th and 9th of Jan. 1674/5. Where eight persons were condemned to dye ... 1675 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1
Axis of heaven : The Greenwich meridian Britain's secret axis of power /Paul Broadhurst. "History relates how the Greenwich Meridian was established in 1675 and later became the Prime Meridian of the World. Over the last five years historical research has been undertaken by Paul Broadhurst and Gabriele Trso showing that the Greenwich Meridian existed long before its official establishment. AXIS OF HEAVEN clearly demonstrates that this north/south alignment was laid out to symbolically line up with the still-point of the celestial sky, the North Pole, with Polaris being the closest star. This link with the heavens was referred to as the Axis Mundi or 'World Axis'. The fascination with the seemingly unchanging still-point in the heavens around which the stars and all creation appears to revolve was at the heart of a polar cosmological tradition which gave rise to a rich body of starlore and mythology and is deeply embedded in the Arthurian legends and the Round Table of the Stars. In AXIS OF HEAVEN which is full of revelations you will find out why Kings and Queens, along with certain Secret Societies, sought to align themselves with Britain's Secret Axis of Power, that North/South Axis which we call today the Prime Meridian of the World."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 398:529.771
Royal Observatory Greenwich : souvenir guide /Royal Museums Greenwich. "At the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Maritime Greenwich are the four world-class attractions of Royal Museums Greenwich - the national Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory and the Queen's House. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was founded in 1675 to help improve navigation at sea. Since then the Royal Observatory has come to define time and place for the world. The history and the work that has taken place here explain why the historic Prime Meridian of the World passes through Greenwich and why Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the basis of the international time-zone system. The Royal Observatory is also home to awe-inspiring astronomy and London's only Planetarium.The Royal Observatory Greenwich Souvenir Guide contains a wealth of information about the origins of the observatory, the people involved as well as the world changing discoveries they made, including the vital contribution to the longitude problem. Collated by our specialists, this guide is a wonderful aid, not only for any visit to the ROG but as a brilliantly researched and fascinating read."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 520.1(421.6)
Mathematics at the Meridian : the history of mathematics at Greenwich /edited by Raymond Flood, Tony Mann and Mary Croarken. "Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astronomical data with the purpose of enabling navigators to compute their longitude at sea. Nevil Maskelyne in the 18th century organised the work of computing tables for the Nautical Almanac, anticipating later methods used in safety-critical computing systems. The 19th century saw influential critiques of Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines, and in the 20th century Leslie Comrie and others pioneered the automation of computation. The arrival of the Royal Naval College in 1873 and the University of Greenwich in 1999 has brought more mathematicians and different kinds of mathematics to Greenwich. In the 21st century computational mathematics has found many new applications. This book presents an account of the mathematicians who worked at Greenwich and their achievements."--Provided by the publisher. 2020 [i.e. 2019]. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
The Saltwater Frontier : Indians and the Contest for the American Coast /Andrew Lipman. "Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "frontier" between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, Lipman uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, he reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores."--Provided by the publisher 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(42:492)(=97)
Sailing school : navigating science and skill, 1550-1800 /Margaret E. Schotte. "Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they created hybrid models that would have a lasting impact on applied science. In Sailing School, a richly illustrated comparative study of this transformative period, Margaret E. Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land. She begins by outlining the influential sixteenth-century Iberian model for training and certifying nautical practitioners. She takes us into a Dutch bookshop stocked with maritime manuals and a French trigonometry lesson devoted to the idea that "navigation is nothing more than a right triangle." The story culminates at the close of the eighteenth century with a young British naval officer who managed to keep his damaged vessel afloat for two long months, thanks largely to lessons he learned as a keen student. This is the first study to trace the importance, for the navigator's art, of the world of print. Schotte interrogates a wide variety of archival records from six countries, including hundreds of published textbooks and never-before-studied manuscripts crafted by practitioners themselves. Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527
Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation : being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding. Mace, Thomas, 1675. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 351.811.111.3(42):094
Oxford : mapping the city /Daniel MacCannell. "Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere finding of one's way through the streets. Maps were produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from rampaging Roundheads, raging floodwaters, and the ravages of cholera; to plan the new canals and bridges of the eighteenth century and the new railways, tramways and suburbs of the nineteenth; to determine and display changes in the city's political stature under the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867; to aid police enforcement of the laws against homosexuality; and even to plan a Soviet ground assault on the heart of the British motor industry. Given its status as a world centre of drama, poetry, literature, music, architecture, and scientific experimentation, and sometime royal capital, it is unsurprising that Oxford was the first British town to be included in map form in a tourist guidebook, as early as 1762, and one of just two inland towns mapped by French invasion planners in the Seven Years' War.For the first time, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together sixty of the most remarkable maps and views of the area that have been made by friend and foe since 1575."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 911.425/74