<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Bernard, Another source on the nautical part would be <div class="">Margaret Schotte <i class="">Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1880 </i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).</span></div><div class="">Here is her website on the book:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.sailingschoolbook.com/" class="">https://www.sailingschoolbook.com/</a></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Ross Bassett</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 4, 2022, at 7:29 AM, Bernard Geoghegan <<a href="mailto:bernardgeoghegan2010@u.northwestern.edu" class="">bernardgeoghegan2010@u.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Dear Colleagues,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Can anyone recommend key works on 18<sup class="">th</sup>-20<sup class="">th</sup> c. astronomical, nautical, and maritime charts, esp as a pre-history to modern information processing? I’m trying to write a history of how
19<sup class="">th</sup> c. visuality was pieced together at sea, from a patchwork of observations, charts, tables, astrolabes, etc, in which a regime of calculations and information processing figure centrally in making visual sense of the surrounding world.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">To give a very general idea of where I’m coming from, I’ve found some very useful work in the Campbell-Kelly et al volume on “The History of Mathematical Tables,” and Mindell’s work on naval systems of artillery
control has also been an inspiring point of reference. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Thank for your thoughts on further sources!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Warmly, Bernard<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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