Sea fortune: literature and navigation

Sea fortune has always been an issue of good faith and good navigation. While in antiquity, fortuna gubernatrix was praised for shielding the seaborne trade, in the Renaissance fortuna symbolized the conquest of chance and danger. Under such auspices, while relying on risk technologies modern seafar...

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Main Author: Wolf, Burkhardt 1969- (Author)
Other Authors: Golb, Joel (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter [2020]
Series:Paradigms volume 10
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610734
Summary:Sea fortune has always been an issue of good faith and good navigation. While in antiquity, fortuna gubernatrix was praised for shielding the seaborne trade, in the Renaissance fortuna symbolized the conquest of chance and danger. Under such auspices, while relying on risk technologies modern seafaring has never lost its adventurous dimension. Understanding their origin remains a challenge for the history of science and the history of literature
Physical Description:1 Online Ressource (XXIX, 517 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9783110610734
9783110609349
DOI:10.1515/9783110610734

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