Article ID: CBB001021166

The Adventures of Captain John Smith among the Mathematical Practitioners: Cosmology, Mathematics, and Power at the Time of Jamestown (2007)

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Description Discusses the influence of John Dee among mariners.


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Authors & Contributors
Heather Law Pezzarossi
Sheptak, Russell N.
Eleanor (Eleanor Kathryn) Hubbard
Woodward, Walter William
Sweet, Julie Anne
Silva, Cristobal Selenite
Journals
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Renaissance Quarterly
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the History of Ideas
Journal for Maritime Research: Britian, the Sea and Global History
Georgia Historical Quarterly
Publishers
Yale University Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of New Mexico Press
Rutgers University Press
Rowman & Littlefield
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
Sailors
Technology
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Metallurgy
People
Winthrop, John
Hakluyt, Richard
Petiver, James
Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir
Dee, John
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
19th century
Places
North America
United States
Virginia (U.S.)
New England (U.S.)
Great Britain
Atlantic world
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