William Bourne
| Date | c. 1535-1582 |
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| Biographical Notes | Writer on Mathematics, navigation, and gunnery, best known for his practical textbooks. He was not university educated; rather his works were populist accounts of technical matters for a popular audience. He was town Councillor of Gravesend 1562 and in 1571–72 served as port-reeve, the equivalent of mayor. See ODNB. |
| Work(s) | Author of [Preface to Bourne's A Booke Called the Treasure for Traveilers] (1578) in A Booke Called the Treasure for Traveilers, divided into five Bookes or Partes, Contaynyng very necessary Matters, for all sortes of Travailers, eyther by Sea or by Lande |