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Slavery and the British empire : from Africa to America /Kenneth Morgan. "Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

Outlines of a plan for submitting to trial time-keepers : offered for sale to the public ... ca.1800] (London : T. Bensley). • • 1 copy available. 681.113.92:094

Teorica della compensazione de pendoli / Paolo Volpicelli. Volpicelli, Paolo, 1860. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.11.032.111:094

Francis Frith's Victorian seaside : photographic memories. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 711.455(210.5:42)"18"

Francis Frith's down the Severn / [compiled by] Clive Hardy. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.4:77.04(282.242.4)

Castaways adrift and abandoned : thrilling tales of the sea, volume three / "Seafaring before the twentieth century bristled with peril. The safe haven of your vessel might be destroyed by tempest or misadventure, your security scuttled. When you were cast away with only the resources of pluck, stamina, hope - and luck. Where you might end up on the expanse of endless sea facing the prospect of imminent dehydrated, starving death. Or on a safe but potentially forbidden - yet occassionally lush - outcrop of an isolated shore, amnogst which perils abounded accounts of courage and companionship. There are narratives of castaways abandoned to fend for themselves, and the ordeals they endured and survived and in remembrance of the seafarers who did not."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

HMS Beagle : the story of Darwin's ship /Keith Stewart Thomson. Thomson, Keith Stewart. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

Admiral Saumarez versus Napoleon : the Baltic, 1807-12 /Tim Voelcker. Voelcker, Tim 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1807/1812"(42:44)

The empire of the French : a chronology of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815 /by Brian Taylor. Taylor, Brian, 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 944.04

Nelson's battles : the art of victory in the age of sail Tracy, Nicholas 1996 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Nelson

The armature of conquest : Spanish accounts of the discovery of America 1492-1589 "The discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World is here imaginatively treated as a journey from fantasy to reality, from complicity to rejection, from mythification to criticism. Focusing on certain key firsthand narratives of the Spanish conquest, the author views various journals, letters, and other documents not merely as narratives of facts and events but as literary expressions of the dynamics of the writers' experience: recording the transformation of their perceptions of New World realities and showing the gradual development of a critical consciousness that questions their sense of identity and the validity of European cultural models. The author illuminates the conceptual and aesthetic requirements that mark the beginnings of a new literature in the making. Gradually, the aesthetic requirements and canons of Europe are left behind as this new literature begins to convey the new realities of colonial Spanish America that shape the complex poetics of Alonso de Ercilla's great epic poem La Araucana."--Provided by the publisher. 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(46:7/8)"14/15"

Piece qui a remportâe le prix de l'Acadâemie royale des sciences en M. DCC. XLVIII. : Sur les inâegalitâes du mouvement de Saturne & de Jupiter. Selon la fondation faite par feu M. Rouillâe de Meslay, ancien conseiller au parlement. Euler, Leonhard, M. DCC. XLIX. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 523.45

Opere di Galileo Galilei : divise in quattro tomi. Galilei, Galileo, 1744 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 92GALILEO

The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal / compiled and edited by Eric G. Forbes, and (for Maria Forbes) by Lesley Murdin and Frances Willmoth. Forbes, Eric G. 1995-2002. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Flamsteed, John

De Fluxu et refluxu Maris : de diversis motibus aque maris opiniones /Jacobus de Dondis ; a cura di Aldo Bullo. "The volume reproduces as accurately as possible the original copy of the manuscript preserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy with a trascription of the fourteenth century text together with Italian and English traslations. Jacopo Dondi, a multi talented engineer, was a doctor in Chioggia from 1313-1344, and in 1355, when he had already moved to Padua, he published a book on tides. It can be surely assumed that Jacopo had already begun work on this treatise while he was a resident of Venice; for as he walked alongside its canal, he was able to benefit from direct experience of the movements of the sea. From these experiences he was able to formulate the laws by which the astronomical positions of the sun and the moon governed the movement of the water." 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 521"13":551.466

Nicolaes Witsen and shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age / A.J. Hoving ; with an appendix by Diederick Wildeman. Hoving, A. J., 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12(492)"16"

A great and glorious victory : new perspectives on the Battle of Trafalgar /edited by Richard Harding. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"

Nelson's war / Peter Padfield. Padfield, Peter. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1805"

Napoleon and the British Semmel, Stuart 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942:02NAPOLEON

Resisting Napoleon : the British response to the threat of invasion /edited by Mark Philp. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.48"1797/1815"(42:44)

1812 : war with America /Jon Latimer. Latimer, Jon. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1812/1815"(42:73)

Campaign medals and orders of revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1792-1815) / Jesâus Chapela Rey. Chapela Rey, Jesâus 2022 • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Unrolling time : Christian Huygens and the mathematization of nature /Joella G. Yoder. "This case study examines the interrelationship between mathematics and physics in the work of one of the major figures of the Scientific Revolution: the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Christian Huygens (1629?1695). Joella Yoder details the creative interaction that led Huygens to invent a pendulum clock that theoretically beat absolutely uniform time, to measure the constant of gravitational acceleration, to analyze centrifugal force, and to create the mathematical theory of evolutes. In the second half of the book, Dr Yoder places Huygens's work in the context of his time by examining his relationship with other scientists and the priority disputes that sometimes motivated his research. The role of evolutes in the history of mathematics is analyzed; the reception of Huygens's masterpiece, the Horologium Oscillatorium of 1673, is described; and finally, the part that Christian Huygens played in the rise of applied mathematics is addressed."--Back cover. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HUYGENS

The elements of Euclid explain'd, in a new, but most easie method : together with the use of every proposition through all parts of the mathematicks /cwritten in French, by that excellent mathematician F Claud Francis Milliet de Chales, of the Society of Jesus. Now made English, and a multitude of errors corrected, which had escap'd in the original. Dechales, Claude Francois Millet 1696. • • 1 copy available.

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