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9. Anthony Deane, Deane’s Doctrine of Naval Architecture, 1670, ed. Brian Lavery (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1981), 57.
10. Herman Ketting, Prins Willem: Een zeventiende-eeuwse Oostindievaarder (Bussum: Unieboek, 1979).
11. Heinrich Winter, Der holländische Zweidecker von 1660/1670 (Bielefeld: Delius, Klasing & Co., 1978).
12. Van Zwijndregt and Ruiter, Verhandeling.
13. Winter, Der holländische Zweidecker.
14. Jules van Beylen, Zeilvaart Lexicon: Maritiem Woordenboek (Weesp: De
Boer Maritiem, 1985), 173.
15. Thanks to Nick Burningham and Menno Leenstra for supplying this
information.
16. A. Martin de Wild, The Scientific Examination of Pictures: An Investigation
of the Pigments Used by the Dutch and Flemish Masters from the Brothers Van Eyck to the Middle of the 19th Century, trans. Leonard Cecil Jackson (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1929).
17. Jerzy Gawronski, B. Kist, and O. Stokvis van Boetzelaer, eds., Hollandia Compendium: A Contribution to the History, Archaeology, Classification and Lexicography of a 150 ft. Dutch East Indiaman (1740–1750) (Amsterdam: Rijks- museum, 1992).
Chapter 3
1. This again indicates that the shipwright did not always use a pair of com- passes, as I mentioned in chapter 2 (see section 2, “The Stem”). It might be argued that instead of compasses a piece of string and a chalk might also do the job, but this does not explain why the curve is dictated in inches or feet and measured from the straight connection line between the two extremities, not with the desired length of the string.
2. In a personal communication of April 2009, Nick Burningham observes: “I think the builder of a full-size ship, or a model, has to know what the result should look like. The several English texts on 17th C ship building that lack il- lustrations are of little use in reconstructing the ships’ designs. Building plank- first is essentially a form of sculpture. If the sculptor has the design clearly conceptualised/visualised, and he is a talented sculptor, the result will be good.”
3. It would be a fascinating experiment if a number of well-trained model shipwrights were to build a model on their own using the same contract and Witsen’s building method. I am convinced that the resulting variations among the individual models would not be much greater than those that were no doubt manifested in real ships built by different shipwrights in Witsen’s time.
4. For details about this experiment, see A. J. Hoving, “Away from the Dra- wing Board” (pts. 1 and 2), Model Shipwright 69 (1989): 43–51; 71 (1990): 47–50.
5. A. J. Hoving, Het oorlogsjacht De Heemskerck: Het schip waarmee Abel Tasman Nieuw-Zeeland ontdekte (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1992).
6. Nick Burningham: “I think the same thing can happen with the English system. If the height of breadth rises to the stern, there is little reduction of beam through a long midbody, and there is tumblehome, the lines will cross. It might be seen as a consequence of the change to a long midbody and a
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