Systematizing the Sea: Knowledge, Power and Maritime Sovereignty in Late Seventeenth-Century Science
Systematizing the Sea: Knowledge, Power and Maritime Sovereignty in Late Seventeenth-Century Science
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The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press
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For early modern historians, the frontispiece of Francis Bacon’s Instauratio Magna (Fig. 10.1) has become a symbol for the joint ventures of knowledge and travel in this period. Depicting a large galleon ship sailing beyond the Pillars of Hercules, it represented human advance beyond the boundaries of the known world, buttressed by the phrase from...
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Systematizing the Sea: Knowledge, Power and Maritime Sovereignty in Late Seventeenth-Century Science
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10.2307/j.ctv18gfzcf.15
