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The commentaries are also by Ursula Lamb. She wrote some of the best pieces
on the social history of navigation in Spain in the 16th century, especially
about the feud between nautical instructors and cosmographers that - of
course - had a very material (i.e. monetary) background ("Science by
litigation - a cosmographic feud", first published in: Terrae Incognitae,
1969, 40 - 57). Her articles are collected in "Cosmographers and Pilots of
the Spanish Maritime Empire", Aldershot 1995 (still available but rather
expensive). Unfortunately she died shortly after this publication.
She has found a worthy successor in Alison Sandman, though. Her dissertation
"Cosmographers vs. Pilots: Navigation, Cosmography, and the State in Early
Modern Spain" (University of Wisconsin- Madison) unfortunately isn't
published, but some of the themes can be found in articles("An Apologia for
the Pilots' Charts: Politics, Projections and Pilots' Reports in Early
Modern Spain", in: Imago Mundi, Vol. 56 (2004), No. 1, 7 - 22, and (with
Eric Ash)"Trading Expertise: Sebastian Cabot between Spain and England", in:
Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57 (2004), 813 - 846.
So much for the members of our list that are interested in the social and
historical sides of the matter we are all interested in.
Wolfgang


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