Entries from National Maritime Museum collections blog tagged with 'instruments'
Navigating culture, 1550-1650
I am a doctoral student at Cambridge University and recently undertook a summer internship at the Royal Observatory. My internship project studied navigational instruments as cultural artefacts - as objects which illuminate the attitudes and beliefs of those who made,...
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Posted by Richard Blakemore, ROG intern on October 16, 2009 10:47 AM
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