"Analysing the economic, social, political and scientific bases on which the British sailed to naval dominance in the 19th century, this book shows how the British Admiralty worked closely not only with scholars, but also with the maritime community in order to systematise knowledge of the world's waterways."@en
"Analysing the economic, social, political and scientific bases on which the British sailed to naval dominance in the 19th century, this book shows how the British Admiralty worked closely not only with scholars, but also with the maritime community in order to systematise knowledge of the world's waterways."
"In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans' outer rim. The dominance of Her Majesty's navy was due in no small part to collaboration between the British Admiralty, the maritime community, and the scientific elite. Together, they transformed the vast emptiness of the ocean into an ordered and bounded grid. In the process, the modern scientist emerged. Science itself expanded from a limited and local undertaking receiving parsimonious state support to worldwide."@en