Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
494 followers · 1441 posts · Server historians.socialThe navigational, cartographic, astronomical, and other writings of the gentlemanly humanist scholar Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522–c. 1606) #HistoryOfNavigation #HistoryOfCartography #HistoryOfAstronomy #HistoryOfMathematics
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/the-equestrian-country-gentleman-who-turned-his-hand-to-navigation/
#historyofnavigation #historyofcartography #historyofastronomy #historyofmathematics
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Edward Wright the mathematical practitioner, who first published the mathematical construction of the Mercator projection
#historyofnavigation #historyofcartography #histSTM
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/correcting-navigational-errors-the-wright-way/
#historyofnavigation #historyofcartography #histstm
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Renaissance cosmographer, Peter Apian, was born 16 April 1495 #historyofastronomy #historyofcartography #histSTM https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/the-bees-of-ingolstadt/
#historyofastronomy #historyofcartography #histstm
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius, compiler of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum orbis terrarum, was born 14 April 1527
#historyofcartography #ortelius
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/abraham-ortelius-and-the-16th-century-information-age/
#historyofcartography #ortelius
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Thomas Hood (1556–1620), England's first professional, public mathematics lecturer #historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/
#historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Thomas Hood (1556–1620), England's first professional, public mathematics lecturer #historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/
#historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
· @MisterOpenData
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Jetzt wird es spannend, denn ab heute gibt es drei verschiedene Jahrgänge gemeinfreier Karten im #OpenData-Portal #SchleswigHolstein.
#opendata #schleswigholstein #HoC #historyofcartography