The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire - Couverture rigide

Baker, Alexi; Dunn, Richard; Higgitt, Rebekah; Schaffer, Simon; Waring, Sophie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009602527 ISBN 13 : 9781009602525

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine longitude at sea, the Board came to support the work of navigators, instrument makers, clockmakers and surveyors, and assembled the Nautical Almanac. Utilizing the archives and records of the Board, recently digitised by the same team, the authors shed new light on the Board's involvement in colonial projects, Pacific and Arctic exploration, as well as on innovative practitioners whose work would otherwise be lost to history. This is an invaluable guide to science, state and society in Georgian Britain, a period of dramatic industrial and imperial and technological expansion.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Alexi Baker operates the History of Science and Technology collection at Yale University's Peabody Museum.

Richard Dunn is Keeper of Technologies and Engineering at the Science Museum, London.

Rebekah Higgitt is Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland.

Simon Schaffer was Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge until 2022 and principal investigator on the AHRC project on the Board of Longitude.

Sophie Waring is Director of the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009602527
• ISBN 13: 9781009602525
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 373
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie