Category Archives: History of Science

Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt In the current pandemic, the Scientific Tourist is restricted to armchair travel, but can at least anticipate future trips and reflect on previous travels.  This book is excellent as preparation for visiting Greenwich, and reading about the voyages of those truly great scientific tourists who explored and mapped our world, at least partly in the name of science, is both inspiring and informative. For anyone who prefers actual scholarship to populist dramatic narrative, then this is the book that Dava Sobel’s ‘Longitude’ should have been.  Written by experts at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich for a major 2014 exhibition commemorating the tercentenary of the establishment of the Longitude Prize, … Continue reading →