Nautica Mediterranea (1607)
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Background
The Nautica Mediterranea is a book by Bartolomeo Crescenzio Romano, printed in Rome in 1607 by Bartolomeo Bonfadino. It is a treatise whose first chapter is dedicated to the construction of galleys and contains a clear description of the methods in use to pre-design the frames that were to be pre-erected over the keel, showing the narrowing and rising of the bottom marked on the turn of the bilge, in the Mediterranean tradition. 1
References
1. Nautical Archaeology Digital Library
Further Reading
Link to NADL copy of Nautica Mediterranea (1601)
Crescenzio Romano, Bartolomeo, Nautica Mediterranea, Roma: Bartolomeo Bonfadino, 1607.
Rieth, Eric, Le Maître-gabarit, la Tablette et le Trebuchet, Paris: Editions du CTHS, 1996.
