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E-raamat: Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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These essays deal with questions of navigation and, more broadly, the intellectual challenges posed by Spains 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.
Contents: Introduction; The cosmographies of Pedro de Medina; The Quatri
Partitu en Cosmographia by Alonso de Chaves: an interpretation; Science by
litigation: a cosmographic feud; La nueva ciencia geogr�fica; The Spanish
cosmographic juntas of the 16th century; Cosmographers of Seville: nautical
science and social experience; The Sevillian lodestone: science and
circumstance;The teaching of pilots and the Chronographía o Repertorio de
los Tiempos; Nautical scientists and their clients in Iberia (1508-1624):
science from imperial perspective; Dos huellas científicas del tratado de
Tordesillas; Puerto de Caballos, Honduras: an abandoned choice; The silver
masters: a link in the Spanish silver chain; Advice to the King: the route to
the Indies and the South Atlantic; Argos and Polyphemus: eyes on the New
World; Martín Fern�ndez de Navarrete clears the deck: the Spanish
Hydrographic Office (1809-1824); The London years of Felipe Bauz�: Spanish
hydrographer in exile, 1823-34; Early Spanish plans for lithographic
reproduction of maps: a fruitful failure; Index.
Ursula Lamb, formerly University of Arizona, USA
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