Sara Caputo
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History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
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It was also not super common yet to represent run-of-the-mill voyages as tracks on maps, and few charts have survived, so your best bet is probably looking at textual accounts.
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It was also not super common yet to represent run-of-the-mill voyages as tracks on maps, and few charts have survived, so your best bet is probably looking at textual accounts.
Coming back North required a different route, due to the trade winds. A classic study discussing this is John Law, 'Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion', in Bijker et al., The Social Construction of Technological Systems (MIT Press, 2012).
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Coming back North required a different route, due to the trade winds. A classic study discussing this is John Law, 'Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion', in Bijker et al., The Social Construction of Technological Systems (MIT Press, 2012).
Oh, thank you! A really lovely picture and a very flattering comment, especially coming from someone with the sky-high standards of Granny Weatherwax.
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Oh, thank you! A really lovely picture and a very flattering comment, especially coming from someone with the sky-high standards of Granny Weatherwax.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
Thank you! I don't think any book *could* ever truly explain this, but Tracks does certainly grapple with the hugely mind-blowing nature of voyaging, and how people have tried to make sense of it, or indeed wield it.
September 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Thank you! I don't think any book *could* ever truly explain this, but Tracks does certainly grapple with the hugely mind-blowing nature of voyaging, and how people have tried to make sense of it, or indeed wield it.
Thank you! More writing about maps is always a good thing, and the more paths leading to it the merrier. I'm delighted you are enjoying the book.
August 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thank you! More writing about maps is always a good thing, and the more paths leading to it the merrier. I'm delighted you are enjoying the book.
Hooray!! Huge congratulations, Elaine!
August 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hooray!! Huge congratulations, Elaine!