Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England / Eric H. Ash.
Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England / Eric H. Ash.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N303.483/ 247
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English
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viii, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Introduction : Expert mediators and Elizabethan England -- German miners, English mistrust, and the importance of being "expert" -- Expert mediation and the rebuilding of Dover Harbor -- Early mathematical navigation in England -- Secants, sailors, and Elizabethan manuals of navigation -- Francis Ba...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
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Maryland
Date Published
2004.
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"Eric H. Ash follows the rise of this pivotal new figure, the expert mediator, in the political and intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. Using a series of case studies - copper mining, the rebuilding of Dover harbor in the early 1580s, the introduction of mathematics to navigation, and the creation of navigational manuals - he traces the...
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Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England / Eric H. Ash.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N303.483/ 247
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74VKPNAla6XM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPNAla6XM
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0801879922 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801879920 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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303.483094209031
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991019692089702626
