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Longitude (Convocation Book)
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Book ReviewsChown, Marcus. "For those in peril on the sea." New Scientist, Nov. 18, 1995: 68. [full text available in Westlaw] Geographical, Nov 1996: 58 Levinson, Martin H.. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 53 (1996): 482-483. Pratter, Frederick. "How a clockmaker made sailing the seas safer." Christian Science Monitor, Jan 31, 1996: 13. Sinclair, Thomas. "For want of longitude." Beaver, Aug/Sep1996: 44. Tonkin, Boyd. "The time machine." New Statesman, Aug. 9, 1996: 45. Author WebsiteConvocation WebsiteCollege of Charleston Convocation 2008 ThemesReference Resource Books
Walter, Richard. Anson's voyage round the world in the years 1740-44, with an account of the last capture of a Manila galleon. New York: Dover, 1974. Williams, Glyndwr. The prize of all the oceans: the dramatic true story of Commodore Anson's voyage round the world and how he seized the Spanish treasure galleon. New York: Viking, 2000.
Gade, John Allyne. The life and times of Tycho Brahe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947. Thoren, Victor E. The Lord of Uraniborg: a biography of Tycho Brahe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
MacLean, Alistair. Captain Cook. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Villiers, Alan. Captain James Cook. New York: Scribner, 1967.
Bradley, Robert E., and C. Edward Sandifer, eds. Leonhard Euler: life, work and legacy. Boston: Elsevier, 2007.
Machamer, Peter K., ed. The Cambridge companion to Galileo. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. Swisher, Clarice, ed. Galileo. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, 2001. Reston, James. Galileo: a life. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Cook, Alan H. Edmond Halley: charting the heavens and the seas. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Betts, Jonathan. Time restored: the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything. New York: Oxford U P and the National Maritime Museum, 2006.
Cohen, I. Bernard, and George E. Smith, eds. The Cambridge companion to Newton. New York, NY: Cambridge U P, 2002. Christianson, Gale E. In the presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and his times. New York: Free Press, 1984 Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.
Tinniswood, Adrian. His invention so fertile: a life of Christopher Wren. London : Jonathan Cape, 2001. Jardine, Lisa. On a grander scale: the outstanding life of Sir Christopher Wren. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
Clark , David H. Newton's tyranny: the suppressed scientific discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed. New York: W.H. Freeman and Co., 2001. Drake, Ellen T. Restless genius: Robert Hooke and his earthly thoughts. New York: Oxford U P, 1996. Howse, Derek. Nevil Maskelyne, the seaman's astronomer. New York : Cambridge U P, 1989. Articles All articles listed below are available in full-text in the Biography Resource Center database. To access an article, search by the subject’s name (i.e. Tycho Brahe) . Articles are found under the “Magazines and News” tab. "The rise and fall of Tycho Brahe: this 16th-century Danish astronomer braved the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and made thousands of observations that helped ignite the Scientific Revolution." Astronomy Dec 1, 2003. "Captain Cook, Anthropologist." U.S. News & World Report Feb 23, 2004. "Captain James Cook (1728-89): a skilled cartographer and navigator, captain cook dramatically increased european knowledge of the world through a career of discovery on the high seas." Geographical Jul 1, 2002. "Euler's constancy: Leonhard Euler is seldom remembered as one of the Enlightenment greats, but he should be. His discoveries changed the course of mathematics forever, and 300 years after his birth his ideas continue to resonate in classrooms and laboratories." The Wilson Quarterly Mar 22, 2007. "A child of the sun: Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)." UNESCO Courier Oct 1, 1983. "The cartographic legacy of John Flamsteed: modern-day star atlases benefited from the seminal work of England's first royal astronomer." Sky & Telescope Jul 1, 2006. "20 things you didn't know about Galileo." Discover Jul 1, 2007. "Sir Edmund Halley: Orbiting Forever in Newton’s Shadow." The New York Times Oct 29, 1985. "Robert Hooke (1635-1703): recognising a sound imagination." The Lancet Jul 25, 1998. "Isaac Newton: (1642-1727) His scientific search for a grand design in the universe overturned ancient assumptions." Time Dec 31, 1999. "The Genius Of Woolsthorpe." (Isaac Newton) British Heritage Jun 1, 1999. "Isaac Newton: alchemist and fundamentalist." Skeptical Inquirer Sep 1, 1996 Web Sites
Books Available in the Addlestone (CofC Library) Hattendorf, John B. Ed. The Oxford encyclopedia of maritime history. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Dear, I.C.B. and Peter Kemp. Eds. Oxford Companion to ships and the sea. Oxford : Oxford UP, 2005. Kollerstrom, Nicholas. Newton 's forgotten lunar theory : his contribution to the quest for longitude. Santa Fe: Green Lion, 2000. McGowan, A. P. The century before steam : the development of the sailing ship. 1700-1820. London: H.M.S.O., 1980. Williams, J. E. D. From sails to satellites : the origin and development of navigational science. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992. May, William Edward. A history of marine navigation. New York: Norton, 1973. Volo, Dorothy Denneen and James M. Volo. Daily life in the age of sail.Westport , Ct.: Greenwood, 2002. Books available via PASCAL Delivers or Interlibrary Loan Taylor E. G. R., The haven-finding art; a history of navigation from Odysseus to Captain Cook. New York, American Elsevier, 1971. Forbes, Eric G. The birth of scientific navigation: the solving in the 18th century of the problem of finding longitude at sea. Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 1974 Littlewood, Kevin and Beverley Butler. Of Ships and Stars: Maritime Heritage and the Founding of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Somerset , N.J: Transaction, 1998. Articles available online from Addlestone Library Databases Albert J. Kuhn. “Dr. Johnson, Zachariah Williams and the Eighteenth Century Search for Longitude.” Modern Philology. 82.1 (1984): 40-52. JSTOR. College of Charleston Libraries, SC. 14 July 2008. <www.jstor.org> Chapin, Seymour L. “Lalande and the Longitude: A Little Known Voyage of 1763.” Notes and Record of the Royal society of London. 32.2 (1978): 165-180. JSTOR. College of Charleston Libraries, SC. 14 July 2008. <www.jstor.org> Davies, Alun C. “The Life and Death of a Scientific Instrument: The Marine Chronometer, 1770 – 1920.” Annals of Science 35.5 (1978): 509-527. ABC-CLIO. Historical Abstracts College of Charleston Libraries, SC. 14 July 2008. < web.ebscohost.com> Ereira, Alan. “Longitude: The Hidden Evidence. (further revelations concerning the sea-clock made by John Harrison in the 18th century).” History Today 50.1 (2000): 4-. Gale - Cengage. Academic Onefile. College of Charleston Libraries, SC. 14 July 2008. < find.galegroup.com> Available via Interlibrary Loan Ashley, Raymond E. “The Search for Longitude” American Neptune 51.4 (1991): 252-266 Croarken, Mary. “Tabulating the Heavens: Computing the Nautical Almanac in 18th-Century England” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25.3: (2003): 48-62. Howse, Derek. “Britain’s Board of Longitude: The Finances, 1714-1828.” Mariner's Mirror 84.4 (1998): 400-417. May, W.E. “How the Chronometer went to sea.” Antiquarian Horology. 10.6 (1976): 638-63. Randles, W. G. L. “Portuguese and Spanish Attempts to Measure Longitude in the Sixteenth Century.” Mariner’s Mirror 81.4 (1995): 402-408. Thornton, Tamara Plakins. “The 'Intelligent Mariner': Nathaniel Bowditch, the Science of Navigation, and the Art of Upward Mobility in the Maritime World.” New England Quarterly 79.4: (2006): 609-635. Websites Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude John Harrison and the Longitude problem : Royal Observatory ... Reference Encyclopedia of time. New York: Garland, 1994. Books Bauer, Bruce. The sextant handbook : adjustment, repair, use, and history. Annapolis, Md.: Azimuth Press, 1986. Bellec, François. Unknown lands : the log books of the great explorers. Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2002. Dutton, Benjamin. Navigation and nautical astronomy. Annapolis, United States Naval Institute, 1951. Landes, David. Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard U P, 1983. May, William Edward. A history of marine navigation. New York: Norton, 1973. Rediker, Marcus. Between the devil and the deep blue sea : merchant seamen, pirates, and the Anglo-American maritime world, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1987. Williams, J. E. D. From sails to satellites : the origin and development of navigational science Oxford: Oxford U P, 1992. Articles Eagleton, Catherine. "‘Chaucer’s own astrolabe’: text, image and object." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (2007): 303-326 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.03.006 Kilburn, Kevin, Jay Pasachoff, and Owen Gingerich. "The Forgotton Star Atlas: John Bevis' Uranographia Britannica." Journal for the History of Astronomy 34 (2003): 125-145. [available in print on 2nd floor of library] Pflederer, Richard. "Portolon. Charts: Vital tool of the Age of Discovery." History Today May 2002: 20-28. Salmond, Anne. "Their Body is Different, Our Body is Different: European and Tahitian Navigators in the 18th Century." History And Anthropology, 16 (2005): 167-186. Tallon, Beverley. "The Astrolabe." Beaver Feb 2008: 32. Thornton, Tamara Plakins. "The 'Intelligent Mariner': Nathaniel Bowditch, the Science of Navigation, and the Art of Upward Mobility in the Maritime World." New England Quarterly 79 (2006): 609-635. [available in print on 2nd floor of library] Wilkinson, Clive. "The Non-Climatic Research Potential of Ships' Logbooks and Journals." Climatic Change 73 (2005): 155-167 Web Sites Boat Safe Kids -- The History of Navigation Celestial Navigation Net
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