Instruments, Travel and Science
Subtitle: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 13, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415272957
First sentence: The engraved frontispiece of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620) shows two ships, one sailing off the pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar in a boundless ocean, the other, in the foreground, preparing to return from its voyage of exploration freighted with wealth.