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Sea Fortune: Literature and Navigation


Year: 2020
Language: english
Author: Burkhardt Wolf
Genre: Other
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Volume 10
ISBN: 9783110610734
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 550?
Description: 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.

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