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Thony Christie<p>The navigational, cartographic, astronomical, and other writings of the gentlemanly humanist scholar Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522–c. 1606) <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfNavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfNavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfCartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfCartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfAstronomy</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfMathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfMathematics</span></a> <br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/the-equestrian-country-gentleman-who-turned-his-hand-to-navigation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/0</span><span class="invisible">9/the-equestrian-country-gentleman-who-turned-his-hand-to-navigation/</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>William Bourne (c. 1535–1582) the first English author of a book on navigation <a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfNavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfNavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/RenaissanceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RenaissanceScience</span></a> <br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/the-first-rule-is-of-a-good-navigator/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/1</span><span class="invisible">3/the-first-rule-is-of-a-good-navigator/</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Elizabethan navigator John Davis, author of The Seaman&#39;s Secrets and inventor of the Backstaff.<br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/the-seamans-secrets/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/06/0</span><span class="invisible">1/the-seamans-secrets/</span></a><br /><a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfNavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfNavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ScientificInstruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScientificInstruments</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Elizabethan navigator John Davis, author of The Seaman&#39;s Secrets and inventor of the Backstaff.<br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/06/01/the-seamans-secrets/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/06/0</span><span class="invisible">1/the-seamans-secrets/</span></a><br /><a href="https://historians.social/tags/HistoryOfNavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfNavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/ScientificInstruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScientificInstruments</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Edward Wright the mathematical practitioner, who first published the mathematical construction of the Mercator projection<br /><a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofnavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofnavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofcartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofcartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histSTM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histSTM</span></a> <br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/correcting-navigational-errors-the-wright-way/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/04/1</span><span class="invisible">9/correcting-navigational-errors-the-wright-way/</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Thomas Hood (1556–1620), England&#39;s first professional, public mathematics lecturer <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofmathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofmathematics</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofnavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofnavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofcartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofcartography</span></a><br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/2</span><span class="invisible">2/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>Thomas Hood (1556–1620), England&#39;s first professional, public mathematics lecturer <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofmathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofmathematics</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofnavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofnavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofcartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofcartography</span></a><br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/2</span><span class="invisible">2/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/</span></a></p>
Thony Christie<p>New blog post: Edmund Gunter (1581–1626): An inventor of instruments <br /><a href="https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/an-inventor-of-instruments/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/01/1</span><span class="invisible">8/an-inventor-of-instruments/</span></a><br /><a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofinstruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofinstruments</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/historyofnavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofnavigation</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Renaissancescience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Renaissancescience</span></a></p>
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