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The Development of the English and the Dutchman's Log

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

D. W. Waters
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During the last few years much has been learned about the navigational developments and techniques of the English pioneers of colonization in the New World. This has been made possible in some measure by the formation in America of a private library of the books relating to the art of navigation as practised by the Elizabethan and early Stuart seamen. It was in the course of forming his remarkable collection of early Americana that Mr. Henry C. Taylor of New York, purchased copies of Captain John Smith's An Accidence or The Pathway to Experience. Necessary for all Young Sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to Sea … first published in London in 1626, and A Sea Grammar, with The Plaine Exposition of Smiths Accidence for Young Sea-men, enlarged … first published in London in 1627, subsequent editions of this latter work being entitled The Sea-mans Grammar, etc.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1956 , pp. 70 - 88
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1956

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