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The son of a bookseller at Norwich, Purdy took up the study of naval charts and similar subjects.
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The son of a bookseller at Norwich, Purdy took up the study of naval charts and similar subjects.
His work and influence extended beyond hydrography with the coinage of the term pharology, the study of modern lighthouses and their designs. Purdy"s work Memoir, descriptive and explanatory, to accompany the New Chart of the Atlantic Ocean was adapted and improved. Continuing to be released in its fifteenth edition fifty years after his death.
Before 1812 he succeeded De la Rochette as hydrographer to Messrs.
Laurie & Whittle, of 53 Fleet Street, London. Purdy does not seem to have taken part in hydrographic expeditions himself, and his work consisted in writing works and constructing charts based upon the reports of others
But eventually he became a leading authority of his time on hydrography. He was mainly instrumental in bringing Rennell"s Current before the notice of navigators, and in 1832 James Rennell"s daughter, Lady Rodd, asked Purdy to edit his Wind and Current Charts.
Purdy died on 29 January Purdy is credited as the coiner of the word "Pharology" as the study of modern lighthouses from the 1800s.
The word appeared in Purdy"s 1839 The Colombian Navigator. Or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies. The following year, 1840, it was used in Purdy"s The New Sailing Directory for the Strait of Gibraltar and the Western Division of the Mediterranean Sea: Comprehending the Coasts of Spain, France, and Italy, from Cape Trafalgar to Cape Spartivento, the Balearic Isles, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and the Maltese Islands, with the African Coast, from Tangier to Tripoli, Inclusive.
Improved, by Considerable Additions, to the Present Times.
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