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Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics: Navigation by Greenvill Collins

By (author) Paul Hughes

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This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kingsâ€™, Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, cartographic and larger market of marine enthusiasts. Through shipwreck and Arctic marooning, and Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian running through Charlesâ€™s capital. After John Ogilbyâ€™s successful Britannia, Charles set Collins surveying his kingdomâ€™s coasts, and James set John Adair surveying in Scotland. They triangulated at sea. Subsequently, Collins persuaded James to sustain his dead brotherâ€™s ambition. This, the British coastâ€™s first survey took six years. After Jamesâ€™s flight, and William IIIâ€™s invasion, Collins lead the royal yacht squadron for six years more, garnering funds to publish Great Britainâ€™s Coasting Pilot. The Admiralty and civic institutions subsidised what became his own pilot. Collins aided Royal Society members in their investigations, and his new guide remained vital to navigators through the century following. Charlesâ€™s cartographic promotion bloomed the most spectacularly in the atlases of Ogilby, Collins and John Flamsteed for roads, harbours, and stars.

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