The Admiralty chart : British naval hydrography in the nineteenth century / G.S. Ritchie ; with an introductory essay by Andrew David
- Bib ID:
- 2361272
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ritchie, G. S. (George Stephen) 1914-2012
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Description:
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- Edinburgh : Pentland Press, 1995
- xiv, 444 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1858212340
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Introductory essay, by Andrew David
- 1. Dalrymple becomes the first Hydrographer of the Navy
- 2. Men and methods: hydrographic surveying at the end of the eighteenth century
- 3. Vancouver in the northeast Pacific
- 4. Broughton in the northwest Pacific
- 5. Terra Australis
- 6. Flinders’ circumnavigation of Australia
- 7. Hurd: the first naval officer Hydrographer
- 8. Owen commences his African survey
- 9. The African survey completed
- 10. The Northwest Passage
- 11. Parry of the Arctic as Hydrographer
- 12. Magellan Strait
- 13. High noon: Beaufort as Hydrographer
- 14. The voyage of the Beagle
- 15. Belcher
- 16. Home waters
- 17. Arctic and Antarctic
- 18. War and Washington
- 19. The Antipodes
- 20. Richards and the rise of oceanography
- 21. Evans and the importance of magnetism
- 22. Wharton and scientific surveying
- Bibliography – Index.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: Great Britain: Hollis & Carter, 1967.
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Until 2082 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2012
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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