Notes made by Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) on ships and shipbuilding

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Notes

¹ For further details of the Roanoke expedition see, for example, Quinn, The Roanoke Voyages, ‘Harriot with Ralegh’, in Shirley, Thomas Harriot, 46–176.

² See Pepper, ‘Harriot's calculations’.

³ For some of the technical details in these pages see Pepper, ‘Harriot's manuscript’, 204–15.

⁴ British Library Add MS 6788, fos 1–48; http://echo.mpiwgberlin.mpg.de/content/scientific_revolution/harriot, Access to manuscript collection by topics.

⁵ ‘Furring’ and ‘keckling’, for instance, are not known in print before 1622; see the Oxford English Dictionary.

⁶ See ‘Matthew Baker and the art of the shipwright’ in Johnston, Making mathematical practice, 107–165; http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/staff/saj/thesis/baker.html.

⁷ See Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, where Marlow is described as ‘an excellent man in the Art of Navigation, and all the Mathematicks’ (vol I, 444); see http://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum04purcuoft or http://archive.org/details/cu31924065777751 for modern facsimile editions of this text.

⁸ Historical Manuscripts Commission, Third Report, London, 1872, 230a. Most of the papers once held at Penshurst Place are now housed at the Kent History and Library Centre, as U1475 and U1500. Unfortunately, searches at the Centre and at Penshurst House itself have revealed no trace of the ‘Ars naupegica’. I am grateful to Deborah Saunders and Maryann Webster for their help in this matter.