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Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England / Eric H. Ash

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Ash, Eric H., 1972-
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
viii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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Contents
Introduction : Expert mediators and Elizabethan England -- German miners, English mistrust, and the importance of being "expert" -- Expert mediation and the rebuilding of Dover Harbor -- Early mathematical navigation in England -- Secants, sailors, and Elizabethan manuals of navigation -- Francis Bacon and the expertise of natural philosophy -- Conclusion: Power, authority, and the expert mediator.
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ISBN
0801879922 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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