“Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematical thinkers and their revolutionary discoveries have an incredible story. Explore the beginnings of logarithms through the history of navigation, adventure and new […]
Throughout our beloved series, Patrick O’Brian makes many references to the apparent superiority of French ships and shipbuilding. Indeed, our own dear Surprise was originally French. O’Brian’s references are consistent with those of many historians, but they […]
Patrick O’Brian was an author obsessed with detail, and throughout our beloved series gives us great insight into the everyday running of a ship of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. This period detail […]
While the Académie Royale des Sciences had finally solved the problem of longitude by land, there was still no way to find longitude by sea, which was vital for trading ships and naval dominance. The […]
For much of history, mankind has been preoccupied with how exactly we might determine where we are in the world at any given moment. Obviously, for sailors, this question has an even greater importance. Ancient […]
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