Architectura Navalis Mercatoria: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century Naval Architecture
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Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808) was a naval architect, a vice-admiral in the Swedish navy, and the author of several books on shipbuilding. This volume constitutes an indispensable treatise for model builders, naval historians, and maritime enthusiasts, as well as anyone who appreciates the art of drafting.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Some insist that eighteenth century shipwrights would carve ship half models to help visualize the shape of a ship. Patterns would then be taken off the small model to be used for the full sized ship. The more modern use of lines plans and calculations would not arrive until the nineteenth century. Well maybe not.One glance at Fredrik Henrik Af Chapman’s Architectura Navalis Mercatoria of 1768 immediately dispels the notion that eighteenth century shipbuilders were limited to carved half models, (which is not to say that half-models did not continue to be used well in to the nineteenth century by some shipyards).Architectura Navalis is a wonderful book for anyone interested in 18th century ship design. It is available from Dover Press in a large format soft cover version which also includes Chapman’s A Treatise on Ship-building of 1820. Architectura Navalis also available online at the ChapmanNet of the Swedish Maritime Museum.
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ARCHITECTURA NAVALIS MERCATORIA,
NAVIUM varu generis MERCATORIARUM, CAPULICARUM, CURSORIARUM.
ALIARUMQUE, cujuscunqve conditions vel molis, Formas et rationes exhibens
exemplis æri incifis,
Demonstrationibus denique, dimensionibus calculisque accuratissimis illustrata.
Autore,
FRIDERICO HENR: CHAPMAN
S.R. Majest: Naupego,
R. Acad. Scient. Svee. Membro.
Publisher’s Note
Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721—1808), born in Sweden, was the first known naval architect to use scientific principles in his ship designs. As a young boy, Chapman would trail after his father, a captain at the Gothenburg Naval Dockyard, and draw ship body plans. One of these was so impressive that his father told a shipwright to produce the design in actual size. In 1738, Chapman became a shipbuilding apprentice in the same naval dockyard. He subsequently worked in various other dockyards, but grew dissatisfied with gaining practical experience by itself. Soon after, while working as a ship’s carpenter in London, Chapman was able to study mathematics and physics so he could apply a more extensive knowledge to shipbuilding. With his advanced education, Chapman changed the fundamentals of ship construction—formerly a craft—into a meticulous science.
The present volume reproduces all sixty-two plates from Chapman’s pioneering, eighteenth-century work entitled Architectura Navalis Mercatoria. First published in Stockholm in 1768, Chapman’s carefully detailed work built his reputation as one of the greatest shipbuilders of all time. Following the plates is a republication of the James Inman translation of Chapman’s Tractat om Skepps-Byggeriet (A Treatise on Shipbuilding), which was completed several years after the plates appeared. Well over two centuries later, Chapman’s work is kept alive through a continued interest in vessels of the past and the history of naval architecture. The magnificent line drawings that appear here document both merchant and naval ships from various countries. This exquisite collection of ships’ plans and text, reprinted from one of the most treasured works of all time, will enthrall anyone fascinated by maritime architecture and design.
Copyright Copyright © 2006 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2006, contains sixty-two plates reprinted from Architectura Navalis Mercatoria, originally published by Holmiæ, Stockholm, in 1768. Following the plates is a republication of the James Inman translation of Chapman’s Tractat om Skepps-Byggeriet, as originally published in A Treatise on Shipbuilding, with explanations and demonstrations respecting the Architectura Navalis Mercatoria, printed by J. Smith and sold by Deighton & Sons, Cambridge, in 1820.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chapman, F. H. af (Fredrik Henrik), 1721—1808.
Architectura navalis mercatoria: the classic of eighteenth-century naval architecture / Fredrik Henrik af Chapman.
p. cm.
Reprint. Stockholm : Holmiae, 1768.
9780486136516
1. Naval architecture. I. Title.
VM142.C523 2006
623.8’1—dc22
2006050211
Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
45155003
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Table of Contents
DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
Title Page
Copyright Page
INDEX AND DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAUGHTS CONTAINED IN THIS WORK.
The Author’s Preface
On the resistance which a ship in motion meets with from the water
On the dimensions of ships
On the proportions of privateers
On the proportions of masts and yards for merchant ships
On the construction of the scale of solidity
On the measurement for tonnage
On the accommodations for provisions