Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor

Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor ( born June 22, 1879 in Highgate, London, † July 5, 1966 in Wokingham, England) was a British science historian and geographer. She was the first Professor of Geography in England.

Life

Taylor studied chemistry at the University of London (Bachelor 1903) and then continued to study at Oxford, while she was passing chemistry teacher. She was 1908-1910 Research Assistant to the geographer AJ Herbertson at Oxford, wrote geography textbooks for schools ( with JF Unstead ) and taught at Clapham Training College for Teachers, the Froebel Institute, the East London College (later Queen Mary and Westfield College) and Birkbeck College. In 1929 she was awarded a doctorate (D. Sc.), University of London in Geography and was from 1930 Professor of Geography at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she retired in 1944.

Work

Taylor wrote articles and books on geography history (often in the Hakluyt Society, whose Council she was ), books on the history of navigation to James Cook (The Having Finding kind ) and the history of the then " applied mathematics " in England during the early modern period and of the 18th century, with numerous short biographies of hitherto little -researched and respected " marginal figures " of the history of mathematics.

It showed in the 1960s as one of the first to recognize that the so-called Vinland Map Yale University probably is a fake ..

She was Honorary Vice -President of the Society of Nautical Research. A series of lectures to the Royal Geographical Society, Hakluyt Society and Society of Nautical Research is named after her ( " Eva GR Taylor Annual Lecture ").

Eva Taylor never married, but had three sons. At times, she was romantically involved with Herbert Dunhill (from the tobacco and pipe company ).

Writings

  • Tudor Geography, 1485-1583. London: Methuen, 1930.
  • Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography, 1583-1650. London: Methuen, 1934.
  • The Haven Finding Art: a history of navigation from Odysseus to Captain Cook. London: Hollis and Carter, 1956.
  • The mathematical practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954 [time from 1420 to 1715 ].
  • The mathematical practitioners of Hanoverian England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966 [time from 1714 to 1840 ].
  • Michael Richey: The geometrical Seaman: a book of early nautical instruments. London: Hollis and Carter, 1962.
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