The 2014 Longitude Prize, launched today, has a steering committee chaired by the Astronomer Royal. Rebekah Higgitt compares it to the original 18th-century Board of Longitude The new Longitude Prize ...
Today Lord Rees will be launching the digitised archive of the Board of Longitude at Cambridge University Library. Stuffed full of the correspondence and work of those who preceded him as Astronomer ...
Following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707, which lost four British Navy ships and almost 2000 sailors at sea, Parliament decided sailors needed a better navigational tool. The British government ...
Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum have digitised the Board of Longitude archive. The archive will available online at https://cudl.lib.cam ...
A diagram explaining a method of determining a ship’s position east and west from a fixed meridian line Credit: Photo: University of Cambridge Documents which show the bitter rivalries, wild ideas, ...
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