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Subject: Re: The Mapmakers--I need more!
From: Arthur Pearson (arthurpearson@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 08:42:06 EST
The Captain Cook Society maintains a website and newsletter that is about
all things Cook. Within their scope of topics is some good information about
Cook's methods of survey, mapping and celestial navigation. One concise
article "Captain Cook as Hydrographer" is available online at
http://www.captaincooksociety.com/ccsu4119.htm, I am sure there is more
available for anyone who browses around on their website at
http://www.captaincooksociety.com. The site has extensive links to many
other sites, including journals, publishers, etc.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes <rodneym@XXX.XXX>
Reply-To: Rodney Myrvaagnes <rodneym@XXX.XXX>
To: NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX
Subject: Re: The Mapmakers--I need more!
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:24:58 -0500
It would be interesting to see something about charting procedures in
the 18th C as well. I remember going to the WInter Antiques Show at
Park Ave Armory about 25 years ago and seeing an admiralty chart from
about 1770 for Nantucket Sound. It was surprisingly modern in many
respects. Somebody had done a lotr of soundings.
One thing really shocked me. There were instructions for piloting from
Nomans Land to the corner of Chappaquiddick by sighting on the corner
of land itself, there being no light house there at the time. The tidal
currents around there would make this exceedingly hazardous in an 18th
C frigate or the like.
I wanted that chart very badly, but not enough to part with the $4000
he wanted for it. Maybe I was wrong.
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:31:41 +0000, George Huxtable wrote:
>Dear Tim,
>
>It's good to find the lurkers occasionally breaking cover.
>
>If you can find a copy, try "The Admiralty Chart- British Naval
Hydrography
>in the 19th century" by G S Ritchie, who was himself Hydrographer of the
>Navy. Published by Hollis and Carter, 1967. It's historical rather than
>technical.
>
>There's much enjoyment and enlightenment to be got about charting and
>mapping from some of the papers contributed to "The Quest for Longitude",
>ed. Andrewes, pub. Harvard, 1996. Big and expensive, but a magnificent
>book.
>
>George Huxtable.
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have lurked on this list for a couple years now. A lot of the topics
have
>>gone over my head, but I have greatly enjoyed reading many of the
>>discussions. I haven't had time to practice using my sextant much lately
>>(nor have I ever come close to mastering it), but the discussions on this
>>list have inspired me to pull it out and experiment. Thank you!
>>
>>Anywho... I am just finishing a book called The Mapmakers, by John Noble
>>Wilford. Wow! What a great book! I am sure many of you on this list have
>>already read it, but I thought I would recommend it for the relative
novice
>>like myself. The 500+ page book covers Ptolemy, Magellan, Mercator,
>>Beaufort, Harrison, Cook, Vancouver (my hero), Lewis & Clark and much,
much
>>more. I think it is written in a manner that the layperson can
understand.
>>Great bang for the buck--$11.20 at Amazon.
>>
>>The problem with this book is that it left me wanting more! Specifically,
I
>>would love to find a book that focuses more on the history of nautical
>>charts (The Mapmakers is probably 3/4 about maps and 1/4 about nautical
>>charts). The Mapmakers teases one with preliminary information about the
UK
>>Hydrographic Office, NOAA and the DMA, but doesn't go into much detail
about
>>those organizations. I would love to read more about about how nautical
>>charts are created/surveyed and who was instrumental in making it all
>>happen.
>>
>>Can anyone recommend a book like The Mapmakers, but is more focused on
>>nautical charts?
>>
>>Thank You,
>>
>>Tim Whelan
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------
>>Tim Whelan _/)
>>Internet: http://www.tgw.net
>>---------------------------------------------------------
>
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>
>george@XXX.XXX
>George Huxtable, 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
>Tel. 01865 820222 or (int.) +44 1865 820222.
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Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC
J36 Gjo/a
"Biologists think they are chemists, chemists think they are phycisists,
physicists think they are gods, and God thinks He is a mathematician." Anon
Arthur Pearson
arthurpearson@XXX.XXX
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