Nicolaes Witsen and shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age
By: A.J. Hoving ; translated by Alan Lemmers ; foreword by André Wegener Sleeswyk ; with an appendix by Diederick Wildeman
Contributors: Wildeman, Diederick; Witsen, Nicolaas, 1641-1717
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series; Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781603442862; 9781603444040
Subjects: Early works to 1800; 17th century; Shipbuilding; History
Notes: Hoving selected the portions of Witsen's 1671 publication that deal specifically with Dutch shipbuilding and had them translated into English by Lemmers. Hoving then integrated this translation into a new text with commentary. "To reorganize Witsen's text, I have cut his entire work (except the irrelevant chapters ...) into hundreds of selected fragments and then arranged them in a new sequence that follows Witsen's own description of the construction process."--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How ships are built in Holland today; title: Contracts as historical sources; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix: Variations on Witsen / by Diederick Wildeman.