The Seamans Secrets, deuided into 2. partes, wherein is taught the three kindes of Sayling, Horizontall, Peradoxall sic , and sayling vpon a great Circle: also an horizontall tyde table for the easie finding of the ebbing and flowing of the tydes, with a regiment newly calculated for the finding of the declination of the sunne, and many other most necessary rules and instruments, not heeretofore set foorth by any. B.L.
The Seamans Secrets, deuided into 2. partes, wherein is taught the three kindes of Sayling, Horizontall, Peradoxall sic , and sayling vpon a great Circle: also an horizontall tyde table for the easie finding of the ebbing and flowing of the tydes, with a regiment newly calculated for the finding of the declination of the sunne, and many other most necessary rules and instruments, not heeretofore set foorth by any. B.L.

Author: John DAVIS (Navigator.)

Publisher:

Published: 1626

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Author: Pamela H. Smith

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0226763293

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Aims to bring together essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. This book looks at production and consumption of knowledge as a social process within different communities.

The Wise Woman of Hoxton
The Wise Woman of Hoxton

Author: Thomas Heywood

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780878301690

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Artisan/practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600
Artisan/practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600

Author: Pamela O. Long

Publisher: OSU Press Horning Visiting Sch

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Artisan/Practitioners offers an introduction to the history of science through new discussion of an influential thesis in the discipline. The "Zilsel thesis" argues that artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners exerted an important influence on the development of empirical methodologies in the Scientific Revolution, the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.