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

The Board of Longitude

Science, Innovation and Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the first full-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians analyse one of Georgian Britain's key scientific institutions. Utilizing the Board's archives, they shed light on state sponsorship of technological innovation, colonial projects and exploration at a time of dramatic industrial and imperial expansion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009602525
• ISBN-10: 1009602527
• Artikelnr.: 73526478

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Sailing the oceans and seeking longitude before 1714
3. Launching the eighteenth-century search for the longitude
4. The early commissioners in transition
5. The birth of the Board of Longitude
6. Time trials: the Board of Longitude and the watchmaking trade, 1770-1821
7. Manufacturing the Nautical Almanac
8. Managing, communicating and judging longitude after Harrison, 1774-c.1800
9. A practical institution weighed down by impractical proposals?
10. What is an observatory? From the metropolis to the Cape
11. The death and rebirth of the Board of Longitude
Appendix 1: The 1714 Longitude Act
Appendix 2: The Board of Longitude finances
Appendix 3: Payments from the Board of Longitude to John Harrison.