The Board of Longitude project
| Created: | 2013-07-18 10:47 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
| Description: | The archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, held in Cambridge University Library, include the complete run of the surviving papers of the Board of Longitude through the eighteenth century until its abolition in 1828. These papers throw 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.
This project, a partnership between Cambridge University Library, the National Maritime Museum and the AHRC-funded Board of Longitude Project, presents fully digitised versions of the complete archive and associated materials, alongside detailed metadata, contextual essays, video, educational resources and hundreds of links through to relevant objects in the National Maritime Museum's online collections. |
Media items
This collection contains 8 media items.
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Introduction to the Board of Longitude
Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum have digitised the Board of Longitude archive. The archive will available online at...
Collection: The Board of Longitude project
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 18 Jul 2013
Making Greenwich the centre of the world
Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum have digitised the Board of Longitude archive. The archive will available online at...
Collection: The Board of Longitude project
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 18 Jul 2013
Making Maps
Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum have digitised the Board of Longitude archive. The archive will available online at...
Collection: The Board of Longitude project
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 18 Jul 2013
David Philip Miller: Navigating Longitude: how does position matter?
David Philip Miller (University of New South Wales)
Cambridge University Library holds the complete papers of the Board of Longitude through the eighteenth century until its...
Collection: The Board of Longitude
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 Jul 2013
Larry Stewart: Projecting the Longitude
Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan)
Cambridge University Library holds the complete papers of the Board of Longitude through the eighteenth century until its abolition...
Collection: The Board of Longitude
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 Jul 2013
Professor Simon Schaffer and Richard Dunn: Introduction
Introduction
Richard Dunn (Royal Museums Greenwich) and Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)
Cambridge University Library holds the complete papers of the Board of...
Collection: The Board of Longitude
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 Jul 2013
Sophie Waring: Fixing longitude: perks and pitfalls of digitisation
Sophie Waring (University of Cambridge)
Cambridge University Library holds the complete papers of the Board of Longitude through the eighteenth century until its abolition in...
Collection: The Board of Longitude
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 Jul 2013
Tim Hitchcock: Con-text, pre-text and post-text: what should we do after digitising the Western archive?
Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire)
Cambridge University Library holds the complete papers of the Board of Longitude through the eighteenth century until its abolition...
Collection: The Board of Longitude
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 Jul 2013