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SUMMARY:The Board of Longitude: Science\, Innovation and Empire – book l
 aunch event - Various speakers
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CONTACT:Ahmad Elabbar
DESCRIPTION:Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)\, Richard Dunn (Scien
 ce Museum\, London)\, Alexi Baker (Yale Peabody Museum)\, Rebekah Higgitt 
 (National Museums Scotland)\, Sophie Waring (Old Operating Theatre Museum 
 and Herb Garret\, London)\n\nThe Board of Longitude was one of Georgian Br
 itain's most important scientific institutions. The Board developed in the
  eighteenth century after legislation that offered major rewards for metho
 ds to determine longitude at sea: the enterprise came to support the work 
 of navigators\, instrument-makers\, clockmakers and surveyors\, as well as
  a host of other artisans and schemers. Its activities also included compu
 tation and publication of the _Nautical Almanac_ and establishment of the 
 astronomical observatory at the Cape of Good Hope. This new book\, publish
 ed by Cambridge University Press\, uses the rich archives of the Board\, n
 ow available online\, to shed new light on colonial and exploratory projec
 ts in the Pacific and the Arctic\, as well as tracing the projects of prac
 titioners often lost to history. A round-table discussion involves the aut
 hors of the book and offers the opportunity for discussion of the signific
 ance of these histories during a period of major industrial\, imperial and
  technological development.
LOCATION:Hopkinson Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site
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