Rebekah Higgitt: 2 books
Recreating Newton
Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
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 "scientist." At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both...
Ships, Clocks, and Stars
The Quest for Longitude
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind.
Ships,...