What is it about?
This review high-lights the rich fruits of research arising from the Board of Longitude project of the University of Cambridge and the National Maritime Museum. Contributors cover all the main European maritime powers of the period.
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Why is it important?
The review seeks to emphasise the wide compass of the essays in this book, which range far beyond the core theme of reassessment of the impact of horological developments.
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This collection of in-depth studies brought great value to my own research, increasing my grasp of the interplay between British practitioners and European counterparts, and also confirming the preeminence of British instrument makers in the earlier part of the period under discussion.
Captain RN Michael Kenneth Barritt
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This page is a summary of: Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850, January 2015, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137520647.
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