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National Museums Scotland: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, GB

2020-08-03 to present | Principal Curator of Science (Science & Technology)
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Rebekah Higgitt

University of Kent: Canterbury, GB

2013-09-01 to 2020-08-02 | Senior Lecturer in History of Science (School of History)
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Rebekah Higgitt

National Maritime Museum: London, London, GB

2008-05 to 2013-08 | Curator of History of Science and Technology (Curatorial and Research)
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Rebekah Higgitt

Education and qualifications (3)

Imperial College London: London, London, GB

2000 to 2004 | PhD (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
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Rebekah Higgitt

Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

1996 to 1997 | MA (Seventeenth-Century Studies (interdisciplinary))
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Rebekah Higgitt

Durham University: Durham, Durham, GB

1993 to 1996 | BA (Department of History)
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Rebekah Higgitt

Funding (4)

Observatory Sites and Networks since 1780

2021-08-31 to 2023-02-28 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9747903
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/V014285/1
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Rebekah Higgitt via DimensionsWizard

Tools of Knowledge: Modelling the Creative Communities of the Scientific Instrument Trade, 1550-1914

2021-01-01 to 2023-06-29 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9470263
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/T013400/1
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Rebekah Higgitt via DimensionsWizard

Metropolitan science: places, objects and cultures of practice and knowledge in London, 1600–1800

2016-04-01 to present | Grant
Leverhulme Trust (London, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9749555
GRANT_NUMBER: leverhulme_02407cb0c6
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Rebekah Higgitt via DimensionsWizard

The Board of Longitude 1714-1828: Science, innovation and empire in the Georgian world

2010-04-30 to 2015-07-29 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.2759728
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/H015914/1
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Rebekah Higgitt via DimensionsWizard

Works (21)

Science and the City: Spaces and geographies of Metropolitan Science

Science Museum Group Journal
2021-06-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.15180/211506
Part of ISSN: 2054-5770
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Rebekah Higgitt

Instruments and relics

Journal of the History of Collections
2019-11-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhy038
Part of ISSN: 0954-6650
Part of ISSN: 1477-8564
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Rebekah Higgitt

London 1600–1800: communities of natural knowledge and artificial practice

The British Journal for the History of Science
2019-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/s0007087419000189
Part of ISSN: 0007-0874
Part of ISSN: 1474-001X
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Rebekah Higgitt

‘Greenwich near London’: the Royal Observatory and its London networks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The British Journal for the History of Science
2019-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/s0007087419000244
Part of ISSN: 0007-0874
Part of ISSN: 1474-001X
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Rebekah Higgitt

“In the Society’s Strong Box”

Nuncius
2019-06-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-03402006
Part of ISSN: 0394-7394
Part of ISSN: 1825-3911
Contributors: Rebekah Higgitt
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Rebekah Higgitt

Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

2016 | Book
DNB: 1080806008
ISBN:

978-1-137-52063-0
Contributors: Rebekah Higgitt; Richard Dunn; Peter Jones
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Rebekah Higgitt via Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

"The famous zenith sector" at Greenwich

Endeavour
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2014.09.007
EID:

2-s2.0-84918797058
Contributors: Higgitt, R.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

A British national observatory: The building of the New Physical Observatory at Greenwich, 1889-1898

British Journal for the History of Science
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0007087413000678
EID:

2-s2.0-84910603218
Contributors: Higgitt, R.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

Finding Longitude

2014 | Book
Source: Self-asserted source
Rebekah Higgitt

Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

2014 | Book
DNB: 110175821X
ISBN:

978-1-349-56744-7
Contributors: Rebekah Higgitt; Richard Dunn; Peter Jones
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Rebekah Higgitt via Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

Greenwich, time and 'the line'

Endeavour
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.11.004
EID:

2-s2.0-76349083820
Contributors: Higgitt, R.; Dolan, G.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

Historical geographies of provincial science: Themes in the setting and reception of the British Association for the advancement of science in Britain and Ireland, 1831-c.1939

British Journal for the History of Science
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0007087408000848
EID:

2-s2.0-49549122212
Contributors: Withers, C.; Higgitt, R.; Finnegan, D.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

Science and sociability: Women as audience at the British association for the advancement of science, 1831-1901

ISIS
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/587538
EID:

2-s2.0-44149084457
Contributors: Higgitt, R.; Withers, C.W.J.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

Discriminating Days? Partiality and Impartiality in Nineteenth-Century Biographies of Newton

2007 | Book chapter
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Rebekah Higgitt
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Recreating Newton

2007 | Book
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Rebekah Higgitt

Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885

2006 | Book
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Rebekah Higgitt

Geography's other histories? Geography and science in the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831-c.1933

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2006 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00231.x
EID:

2-s2.0-33751004718
Contributors: Withers, C.W.J.; Finnegan, D.; Higgitt, R.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

Why I don't FRS my tail: Augustus de Morgan and the Royal Society

Notes and Records of the Royal Society
2006 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2006.0150
EID:

2-s2.0-33750311607
Contributors: Higgitt, R.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

President, patron, friend and lover: Charles Montagu's significance to the history of science

Notes and Records of the Royal Society
2005 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2005.0087
EID:

2-s2.0-22944460191
Contributors: Higgitt, R.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

Astronomers against Newton

Endeavour
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2004.01.012
EID:

2-s2.0-1542351210
Contributors: Higgitt, R.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier

'Newton dépossédé!' The British response to the Pascal forgeries of 1867

British Journal for the History of Science
2003 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/S0007087403005144
EID:

2-s2.0-0742324109
Contributors: Higgitt, R.
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Rebekah Higgitt via Scopus - Elsevier
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