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Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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These essays deal with questions of navigation and, more broadly,
the intellectual challenges posed by Spain's acquisition of an
empire across the Atlantic. Crudely, they had to find out what was
where and how to get there. The first section of the volume looks
at the 16th-century Sevillan cosmographers and pilots charged with
this task: their achievements, the social and political context in
which they worked, and the methods used to establish scientific
truths - including the resort to litigation. Ursula Lamb then turns
to examine specific problems, from the routing of transatlantic
shipping to the application of cartographic coordinates to allocate
unexplored territories. The final articles move forward to the time
when, after a lapse of two centuries, Spanish nautical science
became revitalised, and the Spanish Hydrographic Office was
established.
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