Early British swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719 : with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595
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Early British swimming, 55 BC-AD 1719 : with the first swimming treatise in English, 1595
University of Exeter, 1983
- pbk.
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Contains the text of A short introduction for to learne to swimme by Christopher Middleton
Bibliography: p. 209
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In 1857 Everard Digby, an extrovert Cambridge scholar, published the first scientific treatise on swimming - and one of the first on any modern sport. Six months later he was expelled from his college, and dies in obscurity as a country parson. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a great pioneer of the history of sport.
The book opens with a detailed history of swimming in Britain from the Romans to the sixteenth century, which is followed by an account of Digby's life and work and its impact on swimming down to the eighteenth century.
The book also includes the first modern edition of Digby's treatise, in the English version of 1595, with the 43 original illustrations.
目次
Preface
1. From the Romans to the Vikings
2. The Middle Ages, 1066-1500
3. The Sixteenth Century
4. Everard Digby and his 'Art of Swimming'
5. Digby's Successors and the Seventeenth Century
6. A Short Introduction for to Learn to Swim, translated by Christopher Middleton from Digby's De Arte Natandi
Bibliography
Index
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