Auteur: Rebekah Higgitt

Ondersteuning
Richard Dunn is Senior Curator of the History of Science at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK, where he has worked since 2004. Rebekah Higgitt is Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Kent, UK, and formerly Curator of History of Science at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Dunn and Higgitt are co-authors of Finding Longitude: How Clocks and Stars Helped Solve the Longitude Problem (2014).




11 Ebooks door Rebekah Higgitt

Rebekah Higgitt & Richard Dunn: Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850
This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of …
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€106.99
Dunn & Rebekah Higgitt: Finding Longitude
Recommended for viewing on colour device.Official publication of the National Maritime Museum’s "Ships, Clocks and Stars" exhibition.300 years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval …
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€17.49
Richard Dunn & Rebekah Higgitt: Ships, Clocks, and Stars
An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship’s precise longitude at sea.A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, …
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€49.78
Rebekah Higgitt: Recreating Newton
Examines Isaac Newton’s changing legacy during the nineteenth century. This book focuses on 1820-70, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the ‘scientist’. It …
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€44.54
Rebekah Higgitt: Recreating Newton
Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-1870, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the …
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€52.99
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham: Metropolitan Science
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the …
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€97.03
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham: Metropolitan Science
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development of a scientific culture between the …
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€96.92
Rebekah Higgitt & Rob Iliffe: Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885 vol 2
A collection of the many biographies of scientist Isaac Newton, demonstrating the ways in which his reputation continued to develop in the centuries after his death. It includes private letters, …
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€124.24
Rebekah Higgitt & Rob Iliffe: Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885 vol 1
A collection of the many biographies of scientist Isaac Newton, demonstrating the ways in which his reputation continued to develop in the centuries after his death. It includes private letters, …
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€123.09
Rebekah Higgitt & Rob Iliffe: Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885 vol 2
A collection of the many biographies of scientist Isaac Newton, demonstrating the ways in which his reputation continued to develop in the centuries after his death. It includes private letters, …
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€122.86
Rebekah Higgitt & Rob Iliffe: Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885 vol 1
A collection of the many biographies of scientist Isaac Newton, demonstrating the ways in which his reputation continued to develop in the centuries after his death. It includes private letters, …
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€123.68