Abstract

ALONSO-RIVA, Carmen-María. Working To keep up to Date: Tide Tables and Nautical Ephemerides in the Board of Works library in the Port of Santander, Spain (1873-1945). Hist. Soc. [online]. 2019, n.37, pp.121-145.  Epub Oct 10, 2019. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n37.77231.

This article aims to highlight the significance of the tide tables and nautical ephemerides, official Spanish, French and English publications, in the former Board of Works Library in the Port of Santander. Applying the discipline of bibliography, the author examines the contribution of these regular publications both to technical writing in Cantabria and to the history of science in Spain, as they not only helped to develop the professional skills of the engineer-managers who used them but also contributed to the improvement, development and execution of maritime and port works in Santander by describing the behaviour of the sea and its influence on human activity in a relatively simple form.

Keywords : nautical ephemerides; tide tables; bibliography; corporate libraries; history of science; Santander-Spain.

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