Download or read book Sailing for the East written by Günter Schilder and published by Brill. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) was for a period of 200 years responsible for the navigation material for the journey between the Netherlands and the Far East and the inter-Asian trade. This book presents a never published before overview of chart material used on a VOC ship. The introduction provides information on the history of the VOC, the chart makers, the routes, and the navigation and instruments. All navigation charts of the VOC in the seventeenth and eighteenth century are drawn on vellum, and described and analyzed in an illustrated cartobibliography. Extracts of the 'groot-journalen' of the 'Kamer Amsterdam' are also included, providing a unique view of the total expenses of the VOC on navigation. Sailing for the East is part ten of the Utrecht Studies of the History of Cartography. Includes 600 full color images, CD-ROM with appendices.Gunter Schilder graduated from Vienna University and has worked in the Netherlands at the Utrecht University on the history of cartography since 1971. In 1981 he was appointed professor of the history of cartography, a position he continued until his retirement in 2005. Schilder has written numerous publications on the history of Dutch cartography and discoveries, and as a result has agumented the knowledge of and appreciation for Dutch cartography in its Golden AgeHans D. Kok attended the Dutch Government Civil Aviation Flying Training School and later joined KLM- Royal Dutch Airlines. His interest in navigation and maps stems from his early days of navigating across oceans and polar areas, practising the old techniques, using sextants and other specific navigational instruments. His map collection comprises maps and charts from 1560 till 1800, focusing on the sea-routes from Amsterdam to Jakarta, formerly Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies. He is currently on the Board of Editors of Caert-Thresoor in Holland, and is the Chairman of IMCoS, the International Map Collectors' Society in London.

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Download or read book India Directory Or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies China New Holland Cape of Good Hope Brazil and the Interjacent Ports written by James Horsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sailing directions for the North East North and North West coasts of Ireland partly drawn up by W Mudge completed by G A Frazer written by William MUDGE (Colonel, F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Sailing Directions for the East Coasts of Central America and Mexico written by United States. Naval Oceanographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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