RefNo | CLP/7i/36 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'What a compleat treatise of navigation should containe' by William Petty |
Date | 1685 |
Description | Petty's suggestions include considerations relating to mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, the tides, fishing, jurisdiction at sea, shipbuilding, instruments to use, economics, properties of materials such as iron and timber, shipping lanes and examples of five or six of the best navies and dockyards of Europe.
Subject: Navigation
Read to the Royal Society on 24 March 1686 |
Language | English |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1693.0015 |
JBO/8/43 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8268 | Petty; Sir; William (1623 - 1687); natural philosopher, administrator, and economist | 1623 - 1687 |