Paper, 'What a compleat treatise of navigation should containe' by William Petty
Reference number: CLP/7i/36
Date: 24 March 1686
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Petty's suggestions include considerations relating to mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, the tides, fishing, jurisdiction at sea, shipbuilding, instruments to use, economics, properties of materials such as iron and timber, shipping lanes and examples of five or six of the best navies and dockyards of Europe.
Subject: Navigation
Read to the Royal Society on 24 March 1686
- Reference number
- CLP/7i/36
- Earliest possible date
- 24 March 1686
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Petty, Paper, 'What a compleat treatise of navigation should containe' by William Petty, 24 March 1686, CLP/7i/36, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_7i_36/paper-what-a-compleat-treatise-of-navigation-should-containe-by-william-petty, accessed on 11 February 2026
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II. What a compleat treatise of navigation should contain. Drawn up in the Year 1685. by Sir William Petty late Fellow of the Royal Society External link, opens in new tab.
Author: William Petty
Date: 1st March 1693
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1693.0015
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Classified papers: volume 7i concerning 'Architecture, ship-building, geography, navigation, voyages, travels'
1661-1695 Reference number: CLP/7i
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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