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An History of Marine Architecture: Including an Enlarged and Progressive View of the Nautical Regulations and Naval History, Both Civil and Military,
Contributor(s): Charnock, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 1108084109     ISBN-13: 9781108084109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2017
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- Technology & Engineering | History
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
Physical Information: 3.62" H x 8.27" W x 11.65" L (8.93 lbs) 1556 pages
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After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford, John Charnock (1756-1807) joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer. Though details of his career at sea are lacking, he is known to have embarked on assiduous research into historical and contemporary naval affairs, and he cultivated contacts with many serving officers. His six-volume Biographia Navalis (1794-8), flawed yet still useful, is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Published in three volumes from 1800 to 1802, the present work stands as the first serious study of naval architecture in Britain in particular, while also noting major developments in Europe and beyond. The volumes are illustrated throughout with numerous designs of vessels. Volume 1 traces marine architecture from the ancients to the fifteenth century. Volume 2 gives significant space to the navies of the Tudors and Stuarts, and changes in Europe up to the end of the seventeenth century. Volume 3 covers the eighteenth century.
 
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