Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden age [Audiobook] download free by A. J. Hoving
- Listen audiobook: Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden age
- Author: A. J. Hoving
- Release date: 2012/12/28
- Publisher: TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781603442862
- Rating: 8.16 of 10
- Votes: 367
- Review by: Addison Meador
- Review rating: 9.04 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/5
- Duration: 3H55M16S in 256 kbps (62 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AAC, Vorbis, MPEG-4 SLS, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, WMA (compression AZW4, XZ, ZIP, RAR, AZW, TAR.LZO)
- Total pages original book: 310
- Includes a PDF summary of 33 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M48S (6.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In 1671, Dutch diplomat and scientist Nicolaes Witsen published a book that served, among other things, as an encyclopedia for the 'shell-first' method of ship construction. In the centuries since, Witsen's rather convoluted text has also become a valuable source for insights into historical shipbuilding methods and philosophies during the 'Golden Age' of Dutch maritime trade. However, as Andr Wegener Sleeswyk's foreword notes, Witsen's work is difficult to access not only for its seventeenth-century Dutch language but also for the vagaries of its author's presentation. Fortunately for scholars and students of nautical archaeology and shipbuilding, this important but chaotic work has now been reorganized and elucidated by A. J. Hoving and translated into English by Alan Lemmers. In Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, Hoving, master model builder for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, sorts out the steps in Witsen's method for building a seventeenth-century pinas by following them and building a model of the vessel. Experimenting with techniques and materials, conducting research in other publications of the time, and rewriting as needed to clarify and correct some vital omissions in the sequence, Hoving makes Witsen's work easier to use and understand. Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age is an indispensable guide to Witsen's work and the world of his topic: the almost forgotten basics of a craftsmanship that has been credited with the flourishing of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. To view a sample of Ab Hoving's ship model drawings, please visit: http: //nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/AbHoving.htm
- Other categories, genre or collection: Archaeology, European History, Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700, Ships & Shipping, Maritime History, Ship Design & Naval Architecture, General & World History
- Download servers: MEGA, Torrent, Demonoid, Dropbox, Hotfile, FreakShare, FileInvite, Google Drive. Compressed in AZW4, XZ, ZIP, RAR, AZW, TAR.LZO
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 166.43 USD
- Dimensions: 218.44x281.94x25.4mm
- Weight: 1,202.02g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: College Station, United States
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