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The 1874 Nautical Magazine includes legal reports, shipbuilding statistics and strong criticism of proposals for government safety regulations on shipping.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1873 volume includes a series on British ports and regular statistics on shipbuilding. It also expresses fierce criticism of proposed legislation on seaworthiness and new rules on overloading.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1872 volume develops the new editor's strategy of including material on government, maritime law and commerce. It reports on the meetings of learned societies but also includes popular literature.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1872 volume develops the new editor's strategy of including material on government, maritime law and commerce. It reports on the meetings of learned societies but also includes popular literature.

Originally sponsored by the editor William Smellie, the engraver Andrew Bell, and Colin Macfarquahar the printer, this work was inspired by the success of Diderot's "Encyclopedie". Unlike rival publications it was published in quarto rather than the usual octavo or folio format.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1838 volume carries special reports on the imminent voyage of the Astrolabe and the Zelee to 'the Antarctic Pole', and the ongoing third voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, to Australia.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1837 volume includes descriptions of coastlines and harbours from Wales to Australia, and an account of the 1831 voyage of the Beagle that mentions the 'zealous volunteer' Mr Charles Darwin.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1836 volume reports on conditions on convict and emigrant ships, new legislation on ship registration, construction of lighthouses and harbours, the proceedings of courts martial and the activities of wreckers.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1835 volume includes shipping news, a letter proposing a canal across Panama, a lurid 'journal of a Russian privateer', and discussion of courts martial and discipline on merchant ships.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. This reflected the interests of hydrographer Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), the commander of founding editor A. B. Becher (1796-1876). Volume 1 outlines the magazine's distinctive aims, and introduces its major themes.

Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions.