Navigating 18th Centruy Science and Technology: the Board of Longitude - Final Report
The Archive of the Board of Longitude is a central resource in the history of science, throwing a vivid light on the role of the British state in encouraging invention and discovery, on the energetic culture of technical ingenuity in the long eighteenth century, and on many aspects of exploration an...
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| Online Access: | https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5556/ https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5556/1/Longitude_FinalReport281113.pdf |
| Summary: | The Archive of the Board of Longitude is a central resource in the history of science, throwing a vivid light on the role of the British state in encouraging invention and discovery, on the energetic culture of technical ingenuity in the long eighteenth century, and on many aspects of exploration and maritime travel in the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic. In this project we digitised the full sixty-eight volumes of the archive, along with associated material from CUL and NMM, and presented it via Cambridge Digital Library alongside detailed metadata, contextual essays, video, educational resources and hundreds of links through to relevant objects in the NMM's online collections. |
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