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Re: translation of Arte de Navegar
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2009 Mar 22, 19:33 +0100
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2009 Mar 22, 19:33 +0100
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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---