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
483 followers · 1341 posts · Server historians.social
William Bourne (c. 1535–1582) the first English author of a book on navigation #HistoryOfNavigation #RenaissanceScience
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/the-first-rule-is-of-a-good-navigator/
#historyofnavigation #renaissancescience
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
446 followers · 1178 posts · Server historians.social
Elizabethan navigator John Davis, author of The Seaman's Secrets and inventor of the Backstaff.
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/the-seamans-secrets/
#HistoryOfNavigation #ScientificInstruments
#historyofnavigation #scientificinstruments
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
446 followers · 1175 posts · Server historians.social
Elizabethan navigator John Davis, author of The Seaman's Secrets and inventor of the Backstaff.
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/the-seamans-secrets/
#HistoryOfNavigation #ScientificInstruments
#historyofnavigation #scientificinstruments
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
421 followers · 1035 posts · Server historians.social
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
389 followers · 742 posts · Server historians.social
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
390 followers · 739 posts · Server historians.social
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
366 followers · 511 posts · Server historians.socialNew blog post: Edmund Gunter (1581–1626): An inventor of instruments
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/an-inventor-of-instruments/
#historyofinstruments #historyofnavigation #Renaissancescience
#historyofinstruments #historyofnavigation #renaissancescience