The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its networks of support and influence, 1675-1742

该项目旨在为格林威治皇家天文台的机构历史开发一种新的方法。它以天文台为中心枢纽，建议探索地方、国家和国际天文学、实用数学、导航、教育、印刷和仪器制造网络，以支持其工作和发展声誉。它将集中在前两个天文学家皇家，约翰弗拉姆斯蒂德和埃德蒙哈雷，旨在更好地了解这一关键机构在其基础年的作用，环境和发展的时期。这项研究将借鉴知识，物质文化和图书历史的地理工作，以获得更全面的背景下，数学和工具知识的开发和使用。该项目将利用一系列的档案来源和对象，书籍和图像收藏，特别是那些NMM.学生将有机会提高博物馆的编目和公共节目和展览中的解释，并为皇家天文台（2025-26）的350周年纪念计划的发展提供信息，该天文台是NMM的一部分（与女王之家和卡蒂萨克一起，被称为皇家博物馆格林威治）。他们也将能够有助于博士Higgitt的研究项目，大都会科学：地方，对象和文化的知识和实践在伦敦，1600年至1800年，与科学博物馆合作。

This project aims to develop a new approach to the institutional history of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Using the Observatory as a central hub, it proposes to explore the local, national and international networks of astronomy, practical mathematics, navigation, education, print and instrument making that supported its work and developing reputation. It will focus on the period of the first two Astronomers Royal, John Flamsteed and Edmond Halley, aiming to better understand the role, milieu and development of this key institution in its foundational years.This research will draw on work on geographies of knowledge, material culture and book history in order to gain a fuller picture of contexts in which mathematical and instrumental knowledge was developed and used. The project will make use of a range of archival sources and object, book and image collections, especially those of the NMM.The student will have the opportunity to enhance the Museum's cataloguing and interpretation within public programming and displays, and to feed into the development of plans for the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory (2025-26), which forms part of the NMM (collectively, with The Queen's House and Cutty Sark, known as Royal Museums Greenwich). They will also be able to contribute to Dr Higgitt's research project, Metropolitan Science: Places, Objects and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice in London, 1600-1800, in partnership with the Science Museum.