The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire

By: Alexi Baker and Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt and Simon Schaffer and Sophie Waring

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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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781009602518
Related ISBNs:: 9781009602525, 9781009602525
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 04/17/25
Copyrighted By:: Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Simon Schaffer and Sophie Waring
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Science
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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