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Cabot has been hailed as the father of English navigation, bringing with him from Spain the methods of celestial navigation and the ability to unite navigational theory and practice. The system Cabot set up in England, however, differed not only from the actual system of navigation in Spain, but also from the policies he advocated while there. In transferring his expertise to England, Cabot reshaped the Spanish navigational methods for his new context, convincing the English to emulate a system that never existed as such, and creating a new balance between theory and experience in navigation.

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Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800. Margaret E. Schotte. Information Cultures. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xii + 297 pp. + color pls. $59.95.

A. R. T. Jonkers. Earth’s Magnetism in the Age of Sail. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvii + 300 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. gloss. chron. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8018-7132-8.

Trading Expertise: Sebastian Cabot between Spain and England*

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Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800. Margaret E. Schotte. Information Cultures. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xii + 297 pp. + color pls. $59.95.

A. R. T. Jonkers. Earth’s Magnetism in the Age of Sail. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvii + 300 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. gloss. chron. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8018-7132-8.

Trading Expertise: Sebastian Cabot between Spain and England*